An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian ExpositionThey critiqued it extensively in publications in France, Germany, and Great Britain, seeking to understand the causes linking the cloud-scraping office buildings of the Loop, the surrounding bucolic neighborhoods, and the expansive classicism of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson Park and their implications for European culture. An Early Encounter with Tomorrow is the first book-length study of European criticism of 1890s Chicago. Arnold Lewis spent over twenty years researching in libraries abroad and in the U.S. to bring us this comprehensive and unique work. It is extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons. An exhaustive bibliography, arranged by country, is appended. |
Contents
Laboratory of the Future | 9 |
Disquieting Manifestations of Urbanism | 24 |
The Urban Transformation of Time and Tempo | 46 |
Historicism and Innovation | 81 |
Chicago secretary 1886 | 94 |
Modernity Materialized | 105 |
Mills Building New York 188183 | 108 |
Hollow tile floor arches 188586 | 113 |
Project for a pivoting tower by T B Powers 1890 | 171 |
Freedom Raising the World by F Ingoldsby 1892 | 172 |
Proposed tower by George S Morison 1891 | 173 |
Proposed tower by E S Jenison and Company 1890 | 174 |
Administration Building Columbian Exposition 1893 | 176 |
Court of Honor Columbian Exposition 1893 | 178 |
Manufacturers Building Columbian Exposition 1893 | 181 |
Palace of Fine Arts Columbian Exposition 1893 | 183 |
Floor plans Home Insurance Company Building 188485 | 114 |
Studebaker Building 1885 | 116 |
Twentysixstory building design New York 1891 | 121 |
Schiller Building 189192 | 122 |
Rothschild Store 188081 | 123 |
Insurance Exchange Building 188485 | 124 |
Masonic Temple 189192 | 125 |
Buffington design twentyeightstory building 1888 | 128 |
The Uniqueness of the Loop | 135 |
Chicago street painted by A Castaigne 1893 | 140 |
Light court Chamber of Commerce Building 188889 | 143 |
Just arrived in Chicago 1892 | 144 |
Conservatorium Masonic Temple 189192 | 145 |
The Domain of Women | 152 |
Map comparing areas of Paris and Chicago 1895 | 156 |
A residential street in Chicago 1894 | 157 |
House of R Alders 1890 | 159 |
House of Dr E H Webster Evanston 188990 | 160 |
House of Theodor Krüger 1892 | 161 |
Comparative floor plans small house 1894 | 162 |
The Worlds Columbian Exposition | 167 |
Comparison of the Eiffel Tower and the proposed Judson tower 1890 | 169 |
Fisheries Building Columbian Exposition 1893 | 187 |
Golden Door Transportation Building Columbian Exposition 1893 | 189 |
International Implications of the Loops Architecture | 195 |
Manhattan Building 188991 | 197 |
Monadnock Building 188991 | 198 |
Auditorium Building 188789 | 200 |
Womans Temple Chicago 189192 | 207 |
Union Trust Building St Louis 189293 | 208 |
Hall New York Life Building Chicago 189394 | 211 |
Landings Masonic Temple 189192 | 212 |
Dedication ceremonies Auditorium Building 1889 | 213 |
Chamber of Commerce Building painted by Orson Lowell 1895 | 215 |
Columbus Memorial Building 189293 | 219 |
Marshall Field Wholesale Store 188587 | 220 |
Union Trust Company Building New York 188990 | 221 |
Winning design for Prix de reconnaissance des architectes américains 1892 | 223 |
Postscript | 233 |
Unexecuted design for Odd Fellows Building 1891 | 236 |
Caricature of the Schiller Building 1892 | 238 |
Bibliography | 263 |
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18 December 25 February abroad Adler and Sullivan American Architect amerikanische April Archi Architect 36 architecture artistic Auditorium August Banister Fletcher Berlin Bocage Britain British Architect Builder Buildings in Chicago Burnham and Root Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung Chicago Exhibition Chicago Real Estate Chicago Tribune Chicagoans city's claimed commercial construction moderne contemporary culture Dankmar Adler December designers Deutsche Bauzeitung editor elevators Engineering English États-Unis Europe European facades February floors foreign observers French German Henry Hobson Richardson High Buildings Hinckeldeyn houses Impressions Inland Architect Institute of British iron Jackson Park Jacques Hermant January Jenney Journal July June l'exposition de Chicago Leopold Gmelin London Loop Loop's Magazine March Masonic Temple Nordamerika November October office blocks office buildings Paris Paul published RIBA Richard Morris Hunt Royal Institute semaine des constructeurs September 1893 skeleton skyscrapers Smoke streets style tall buildings tower proposal United visitors World's Columbian Exposition World's Fair York