Research Catalog

Title

Living architecture ; a discussion of present day problems in a collection of essays written for and sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects / edited by Arthur Woltersdorf.

Author

Woltersdorf, Arthur, 1870-1948

Publication

Chicago : A. Kroch, 1930.

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Additional Authors

American Institute of Architects. Chicago Chapter.

Description

xii, 178 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, plates, plans.; 28 cm

Subject

• Architecture > United States

Note

• Most of the articles appeared on consecutive Sundays in the Chicago Herald and Examiner, in the fall and winter of 1929-1930. cf. Introd.

Contents

Introduction / The editor. -- Tall buildings of today / John A. Holabird, Henry J.B. Hoskins. -- On planetaria / Ernest A. Grunsfeld, Jr. -- The planning and architecture of public aquaria / Edwin H. Clark. -- Centers of college life / Irving K. Pond. -- When school architecture is distinguished / John L. Hamilton. -- Modern opera houses in Europe and America / Alfred Shaw. -- History of cinema theater architecture / George L. Rapp. -- Chicago theater building in retrospect / Arthur Woltersdorf. -- Planning branch libraries / Carl B. Roden. -- Prison architecture through the ages / Ralph W. Zimmerman. -- The rise and growth of hospitals / Richard E. Schmidt. -- Chicago churches / Thomas E. Tallmadge. -- Architectural expression for Chicago's World Fair / Hubert Burnham. -- Distinction in brick architecture / Barry Byrne. -- Thoughts on cooperative apartments / Henry K. Holsman. -- A new era dawns in housing / Eugene H. Klaber. -- The landscape setting of buildings / Jacob L. Crane, Jr. -- Toward an American architecture / Irving K. Pond. -- Biographical notes.

LCCN

30015154

OCLC

• ocm00467101
• SCSB-4241498

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries