Aeeii, I wish my passport was still current. Really need to fix that. Not that I could go right now anyway, but it is good to dream....
only view of the skyline I could find after looking for 11 seconds, possibly to be replaced when I have a few moments
Telegraph - When the sky was the limit
Chicago feels like the ultimate American city. Riding the elevated railway among its towers of steel and glass, you can feel that upward-soaring thrust of all-American energy and optimism. Powering towards the city through sleet, as I did on my arrival, seeing its monumental skyline materialising out of the mist, you have the sense that Chicago, even more than New York, is the city that embodies America's true 20th-century spirit....A major new exhibition at Tate Modern illuminates the role of two crucial figures - the German painter Josef Albers, who turned a sleepy North Carolina college into a bastion of the avant garde, and the multi-talented Hungarian László Moholy-Nagy, who tried to recreate the Bauhaus, the seminal, ultra-functionalist German design school, here in the American Mid-Wes
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Tags: architecture, /Arts, /Chicago
Chicago is an interesting city for architects. It did become home to several escaping the run up to the second World War and the closing of the Bauhaus School. Most notably Mies van der Rohe, one of the very first to design glass skyscrapers (the never built Friedrichstrasse office building, Berlin, 1919--21). These designs he later began to realise in Chicago making it a very significant city in the history of twentieth century architecture.