Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or
Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched
collection of first-rate buildings in every possible style since late nineteenth-century
industrialization. This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism-under the
premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s but is in fact still
with us today. Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky presents 100 structures most of which
were created after the turn of the millennium. These lavishly illustrated building descriptions
are supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago architects including
Stanley Tigerman Helmut Jahn and Jeanne Gang.
