Robert Bruegmann

(Review written in August 2014): I might not have heard about the SOM Traveling Fellowship while in undergraduate architecture school (I wasn't nearly talented enough in school to be in the running for it) if not for the fact that Kansas State University seemed to dominate the awards for part of the 1990s. A few of those K-Staters are in this recap of fellows from 1981 to 1995, but what stands out are how many architects of some renown today got a nice start to their careers through the ability to travel with SOM's money. There's Marion Weiss, Sheila Kennedy, David Hotson, Doug Garofalo, Annie Chu, and Joshua Ramus, to name a few. It's also interesting to see how architecture, as evidenced by student work, changed in those 15 years. Unfortunately I found this book well after my 1990s-era computer stopped working, so the CD-ROM is an inaccessible relic with joys I may never know.… (mehr)

Like its companion volume, Chicago Architecture and Design 1923 - 1993, this book was published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name that was held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988, and also at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Deutsche Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main.

There are numerous essays. covering topics such as the development of the skyscraper, the Burnham Plan, Louis Sullivan, etc.

This has a much better index than the later volume, as this one lists buildings as well as architects.… (mehr)