Chicago Architecture Foundation
Docent Education Program Class of 2009
READING LIST

Required Books:
(specific chapter assignments to be given in class)

Condit, Carl W. The Chicago School of Architecture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
ISBN 0-226-11455-4

McBrien, Judith Paine. Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. ISBN 0-393-73155-3

Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN 0-684-83138-4

Pridmore, Jay and George A. Larson. Chicago Architecture and Design. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8109-5892-9

Sinkevitch, Alice, ed. AIA Guide to Chicago. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co, 2004.
ISBN 0-15-602908-1

Recommended Books: (good reference material, but not required)
Ching, Francis D.K. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.
ISBN0-471-28821-7

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell and Philip Johnson. The International Style. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1966. ISBN 0-393-315185

Poppeliers, John C., S. Allen Chambers, Jr., and Nancy B. Schwartz. What Style is It? A guide to American Architecture. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1983. ISBN 0-471-14434-7

Out of print, but recommended:
Despite being out of print, these books are available used on Amazon.com, half.com, and other on-line booksellers and will be useful for docent trainees.

Saliga, Pauline, Editor. The Sky’s The Limit. New York: Rizzoli International Pub., Inc., 1990.
ISBN 0-8478-2104-8

Willis, Carol. Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995. ISBN 1-56898-044-2

Zukowsky, John, Editor. Chicago Architecture and Design 1923-1993. New York: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000. ISBN 3-7913-2345-8

Please read by the first day of class:
From Miller: Chapters 1-11 and pages 378-385, 488-505, 549-551.
From Pridmore: Chapter 1, "The Roots of Modern Architecture".updated: 8/16/05