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The Chicago School refers to two architectural styles derived from the architecture of Chicago. In the history of architecture, the first Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago in the late 19th, and at the turn of the 20th century.
- Architecture of Chicago
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Chicago School, group of architects and engineers who, in the late 19th century, developed the skyscraper. They included Daniel Burnham, William Le Baron Jenney, John Root, and the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. Among the buildings representative of the school in Chicago are the Montauk.
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Chicago is known for its diverse architecture, and a major reason why Chicago has tremendously flourished in those 70 years was its architecture, known as the Commercial Style, or the Chicago School. The Industrial Revolution lead to many things; among which are Skyscrapers.
One of the most notable styles of architecture to emerge from Chicago, and from all of Illinois, is that of the Chicago School, or Commercial Style. This style was developed with the structures built from around 1880 (after the Great Fire) until the first World War.
May 9, 2018 · One of the most important early buildings of the Chicago School was the Marshall Field Wholesale Store (1885–7—demolished) by H. H. Richardson, a massive round-arched building clad in rock-faced rustication, the precedent for a new type of monumental architecture, freed from Classical or Renaissance Historicism.
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