Adolf Loos
(1870–1933)Austrian architect, whose rejection of all ornament, curves, and decorative features had a profound influence on a generation of architects. He was not, however, himself a successful ...
Buffalo
American city and seat of Erie County in the state of New York. Buffalo is situated at the eastern end of Lake Erie, where the lake flows into the Niagara ...
Chicago
Theatre dates back to the earliest days of the city when, in 1837, Harry Isherwood and Alexander McVicker transformed a tavern into a playhouse. By the 1860s new theatre buildings ...
Chicago School
1 Group of architects working mostly in Chicago in the last quarter of C19.2 Group of high-rise commercial and office-buildings erected in Chicago from c. 1875 to c. 1910.It might be claimed that the ...
Chicago window
Horizontal window consisting of a large square fixed central pane with narrow vertical sliding-sashes on either side, as in the Carson, Pirie, & Scott Store, Chicago, by Sullivan of 1899–1904. It is ...
Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition
(1893)The World's Columbian Exhibition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' ‘discovery’ of the New World and attracted more than 27 million visitors in the six months that ...
Dankmar Adler
(1844–1900).German-born American architect and engineer. He gained experience under Augustus Bauer (1827–94), in Chicago, IL, and after the disastrous fire there of 1871 collaborated with Edward ...
Ferdinand Boberg
(1860–1946) Swedish architect,inspired by Jugendstil, by US architects such as Richardson and Sullivan, and by Swedish and exotic motifs. The influence of Richardson was evident in his fire station ...
Frank Furness
(1839–1912).American architect. He was the dominant figure in Philadelphia's architectural world from 1866, when he settled there, having worked in Hunt's office. He designed almost 400 buildings, ...
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1869–1959)US architect of outstanding originality, whose important buildings are in America. He designed nothing in Europe.Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Wright studied architecture in Chicago ...
functionalism
[Th]An approach that explains social phenomena in terms of their integrative relationships and contributions to the maintenance of society, or to the needs of individuals, rather than in terms of ...
George Browne Post
(1837–1913).American architect and engineer who contributed to the origin and development of the early skyscraper from c.1870. Architecturally eclectic and competent, he was more noted for his grasp ...
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
(1856–1934).Amsterdam-born architect, one of the most influential in The Netherlands, who was himself influenced by the work of Sullivan and Wright. He went into partnership with Theodorus Sanders ...
Henry Hobson Richardson
(1838–86).Influential and brilliantly gifted American architect. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts (1860–2), and worked in Paris under Labrouste's elder brother, Théodore (1799–1885), and then ...
Irving Gill
(1870–1936) US architect, who evolved a remarkable synthesis based on the mission buildings of southern California and the qualities of the regional landscape.He created primary forms, such as the ...
office buildings
The originsChicago‘Form follows finance’Interwar LondonUS hegemonyEuropean innovationThe futureThe originsChicago‘Form follows finance’Interwar LondonUS hegemonyEuropean innovationThe futureThe ...
Organic architecture
C20 term used in so many ways it is virtually meaningless. Organic suggests organization formed as if by some natural process, so organic architecture may mean governed in its evolution by natural ...
Prairie school
Group of architects in the Mid-West USA inspired by Sullivan and led by Frank Lloyd Wright, active c. 1890–1920: it included Elmslie, Griffin, Purcell, and others. The term was coined around 1914, ...
Purcell & Elmslie
American architectural partnership of William Gray Purcell (1880–1965) and George Grant Elmslie (1871–1952), famous first for the various fine houses of the Prairie School. Elmslie, originally from ...
