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This 5 page report discusses the impact of Burnham and Bennett on the architecture and plan of Chicago at the turn of the century and how that plan has continued to be recognized as a major contribution in the design and planning of a modern city. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Biemiller (1996), the aspiring architect or designer can get an entire lesson in America architecture simply by spending several afternoons closely observing Chicagos buildings and the design of the city.
In fact, Stanley Abercrombie (1994) even refers to it as Americas most "architecturally blessed city" (pp. 48). European architects have always seen Chicago as
the quintessential American city. Its rebirth from the ashes of the 1871 fire and its spectacular blossoming into a city of vertical towers and horizontal prairie houses secured the citys
reputation in Europe as the cradle of modern American architecture. Primarily, the city is so admired by Europeans because of its functionality but also because architects such as Burnham and
Bennett incorporated the influences prevalent in mid- to late- 19th-Century England and the Beaux-Arts methods of France, Chicago architects added a strong German connection in their appreciation of the Schinkel
School and Semper. To Europeans, that new synthesis breathed a frontier spirit, and Chicago in turn stimulated some of the Old Worlds most daring Modernist proposals.
This thought has become a paramount tradition of architectural thought for some time in the studies of architecture. Both historians, preservationists, and an entire
new generation of designers have stepped away from admiring only the beauty and grandeur of the lakeside city and have begun to re-examine it (and "re-admire" it) in terms of
its functional beauty which is a hallmark of the Chicago tradition. Part of the greatest beauty of Chicago architecture is the urban fabric and reality that were created by the
design and placement of the citys buildings. The architectural interactions between function and beauty, design and practicality are what have delighted students of the city since the turn of
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