ARTH 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carson, Pirie, Scott And Company Building, Biltmore Estate, City Beautiful Movement
6 Feb 2017
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Summary of last class & key ideas for today: chicago was a site of modernity and innovation. Impact and response of society: beaux art and city beautiful, arts & crafts, and the garden city, craftsman. A great civic model a(cid:374)d (cid:862)utopia(cid:374)(cid:863) compared to the part of chicago more north of it (black city) Charles curran, chicago expo, 1893: schuyler (1894): success of architecture in unity, and magnitude, as well as illusion, divorced from reality, presenting an idea, it is temporary, as an image rather than as a structure. Administration building, richard m. hunt, chicago, 1893: leading architect of the expo, main building. Biltmore estate, richard m. hunt, asheville, 1880: vanderbilt patrons, aristocracy, chateau architecture, early renaissance inspired, suggesting power like the kings of france. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s pavilio(cid:374), sophia ha(cid:455)de(cid:374), chicago e(cid:454)po, 1(cid:1012)(cid:1013)3: organized by women for women, her only building. Court of honor, chicago expo, 1893: unified impression, beaux arts, historical moments brought together.
