Documenting Chicago
In May 2009, the Media Center staff photographed landmark examples of late-19th and 20th-century architecture in Chicago, Il, a campaign made possible by funding from ARTstor.
Taking high-resolution photographs and 360-degree panoramas, the team was able to document much of the city’s vast architectural heritage. Highlights include some of Louis Sullivan’s most iconic Chicago School structures, such as the Auditorium Building, the Charnley House, and Holy Trinity Church. Expanding on the Art Humanities database, they documented Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, Unity Temple, Isidore Heller House, and his own home and studio in Oak Park, Il.
We also photographed the Monadnock Building, the tallest load-bearing masonry skyscraper, built before the shift to steel frame high-rises; the Museum of Science and Industry, the last remaining building from the 1893 Columbia Exposition; and Frank Gehry pavilion in Millennium Park. Finally, they visited Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Modernist campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology, with Rem Koolhaas’s new Campus Center.
