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Chicago school (architecture)

The Chicago Building by Holabird & Roche (1904–1905) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window

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. They were among the first to promote the new technologies of steel-frame construction in commercial buildings, and developed a spatial aesthetic which co-evolved with, and then came to influence, parallel developments in European Modernism. Much of its early work is also known as Commercial Style.[1]

A "Second Chicago School" with a modernist aesthetic emerged in the 1940s through 1970s, which pioneered new building technologies and structural systems, such as the tube-frame structure.[2]

  1. ^ "Commercial style definition". Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Wisconsin Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2019-06-11. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Billington was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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