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Frank Lloyd Wright

With a prolific career of more than 70 years, Frank Lloyd Wright’s work spans the late 19th and mid-20th century. He designed a variety of building types across the country, but Chicago rightly claims Wright as one of our own. It was here that…

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In 1932, historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson presented an exhibition and companion…

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Helmut Jahn

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Architect Helmut Jahn (1940-2021) came to Chicago from Germany in 1966 to study under Ludwig Mies van…

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William Le Baron Jenney

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Regarded as both an engineer and an architect, William Le Baron Jenney was influential in shaping Chicago…

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LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

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a voluntary national rating standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings, established…

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limestone

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a softer sedimentary rock of fossillized shells and coral

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load-bearing construction

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a method of building done by stacking one brick or stone on top of another; each brick or stone carries…

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