Richard Mies Accomplishments

How would someone react if they woke up and their house was covered in flames, or what if the town they lived in was being burnt to the ground? Millions of people have had to deal with the effects of fire. Across America there have been too many fires to count. In the city of Chicago, 1871, thousands of people were affected by a fire. The Great Chicago Fire will always be remembered, one of the worst in history. When society imagines fires they see devastation and ruin, and what people saw in Chicago, once the flames ceased, was exactly that. The Great Chicago Fire destroyed many homes and tore apart the lives of many civilians; however, American patriots rose up to rebuild the city to an even more epic place.

But many things helped the making of this fire. Chicago had dry weather, building’s, and

With the constant growth of businesses and manufacturers in the north, the population of northern cities grew. In a forty year time span the population on New York City grew by 1.2 million people (Schultz 2012, p. 302). This growth was called urbanization. Since the cities were growing at such a rapid pace building developers cut codes and built make shift buildings called tenements for people to reside (Schultz 2012, p.302). Tenements were low income apartment buildings. These apartments were small and cramped and sometimes referred to as railroad flats because their layout was similar to that of the box railroad cars (Apartment House, Encyclopedia Britannica). With the high demand of materials and jobs factories were being built in the same manner as the tenements. These buildings did not follow building codes and resulted in many fires (Schultz 2012, p. 303). Perhaps one of the most devastating fires was that of the Triangle Shirtwaist

The summer of 1871 was unusually dry, leaving Chicago in a drought. A hot, dry wind would blow in from the planes at around 20 mph. The dry air and a scorching breeze made the wooden structures of Chicago as dry as tinder, making fires almost impossible to prevent from happening and making a large unstoppable fire completely inevitable [Charles, 2003]. All summer long, firefighters were working nonstop trying to keep fires from blazing and ripping through forests and farms [History, 2016].

The Monadnock Building is a “skyscraper” located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard in the South Loop of Chicago. The Monadnock was constructed in two phases, but still functions as one cohesive structure. However, the facades of the two sections vary significantly from one another, the northern half of the building expresses a bolder tone, while the southern half is decorated in traditional ornamentation. Each signifies the culture along with the transition of the time period.

he Great Chicago fire was a bad disaster and it was the worst fire disaster in the history because it was the biggest fire to be known. It has been 145 years since the Great Chicago fire has happened and we hope that it doesn’t happen again. The Great Chicago Fire started at 9:00 P.M. on October 8, in a barn. The way this happened is when a girl was milking a cow she knocked over the lantern and it burned the barn down then it eventually caught the whole town on fire. After the fire they realized that building there hole town out of wood was bad. They eventually built there hole town after they cleaned up they built it out of stone.

Once the fire got stated there was no stopping it. It burned down the house next to the barn. Lots of buildings got burned down because the whole city was made out of wood. And because it was made out of wood most of Chicago. If they took their time and didn’t ,make the city out of wood half the city wouldn’t have burned down. It took a long time for the fire fighters to come to try to put out the fire. The fire had jumped part of the Michigan lake and was still

One of the nation’s most influential fires occurred on December 30, 1903, in Chicago, when 602 people, mostly women, and children, died shortly after the state-of-the-art Iroquois Theater opened. The theater claimed to be “absolutely fireproof”, however, there was no fire extinguishers or fire hoses. It was not sprinkled either, even though sprinkler technology was available at

The Reliance building was one of the flagship designs of the Chicago window mixed in a with a bay window form. The enormous bay windows of the Reliance Building invited abundant natural light, ample air circulation, along with a steel framed structure covered by white terra-cotta decorated with Gothic style elements that were unique to office building construction. These ideas of air flow and natural light led to the design of other building by architects that noticed what Atwood was doing and how it was greatly impacting his design flow. Some of the architects that noticed; Sullivan, Burnham, Jenney, etc., were also designing in the Chicago School so they all learned through each other’s designs to create a greater Chicago

The Fuller “Flatiron” building was designed by Chicago’s prominent architecture firm Daniel H. Burnham and Company ¬– lead by Daniel H. Burnham. Located in the 22nd and 23rd street of Broadway, Fifth Avenue, New York, the building was originally built to serve as offices for a major Chicago contracting firm, the George A. Fuller Company, hence its initial name. As the building finished construction in 1902, the detailed beaux-arts style skyscraper is immortalised through its unique relationship to its urban context then and now, and memorable photography by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz – making the Fuller “Flatiron” building a famous landmark in the intersecting streets of New York City to this very day.

Firstly, Wright’s major early influence came from the Froebel Blocks which his mother gifted him from the Philadelphia exhibition 1879 (Curtis 1996). These geometric blocks gave Wright a sense of composition but also helped him create formal patterns and shapes, which later influenced many of his designs (figure 1). In 1887 Wright started work for Louis Sullivan, who was well known for the designs of skyscrapers, also developing on the ideals of Organic Architecture and Dankmar Alder, who was known for his skills in engineering, for results in the best opera houses and concert halls (Larkin 1993). On the other hand, after working for Adler and Sullivan from 1887 to 1893, Wright decided to open his own practice in Chicago. This is where he could finally use his early experiences and own interpretations to express family

In 1871 a great fire destroyed most of downtown Chicago and it was a devastating event for all of the people living there. In 1886 people starting collecting money, more than 3 million dollars, to build the future Auditorium in Chicago. This building would become a great monument and a wonderful symbol of hope for the city. The building would include three different parts that would show a different aspect of the building. For the culture side of the building the opera house would be the main focus of the building. For the profit side of the building a hotel would be designed and built. Finally offices would be constructed for a place to keep the building in control while also creating its own profit. All of these different areas of the building

The Chicago Fire was an extensive fire that destroyed an enormous amount of the city. It burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10 in 1871. The fire was initially caused by the dry weather. Most buildings used wood as their primary construction material. The buildings’ wood frame is highly flammable and dangerous in scenarios like this. The fire spread at an alarmingly fast rate and over a large area due to the city design. The buildings were placed close together on narrow streets which allowed the fire to spread quickly. This resulted in majority of the city to be burned down and destroyed. Despite this catastrophe the fire allowed for a re-do. This could have also easily allowed for a collapse of the city but due to the strong economy, forward thinkers and designers, and the motivation to rebuild this fire resulted in a new urban plan and way of building. Chicago was becoming a world city. Louis Sullivan argued that it was the biggest grain and lumber market in the world as well as the greatest railroad centre.1 The economy was very strong and allowed for a quick rebuild and transformation of the city. Architects such as Louis Sullivan capitalized on this opportunity to design in a new way. Not only to avoid this from happening again but to also design a better working city from the previous one. Starting from a clean slate they could learn from the mistakes from the previous designs and provide a better functioning city for the people of

Even after completing in 1978, the house still appeared to be under construction, wrapped in materials out of an industrial catalogue. The house retained its essence as a perpetual construction site, exemplifying Gehry's contradictory mixture of the ordinary and the avant-garde. Combining modernist form-making with common materials, he had the courage to exploit the implicit freedom of the American middle-class neighborhood. This method became a first in the United States and caught the attention of critics. In spite of the first evidence of an imminent prominence, Gehry had to hone the power of architecture to counter the forces of capital; otherwise, its capacity to sustain any critical role could be largely

“Modern Architecture: International Exhibition” is the title of an exhibition that took place in 1932 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Organized by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the exhibition introduced an emerging architectural style characterized by simplified geometry and a lack of ornamentation; known as the “International style,” it was described by Johnson as “Probably the first fundamentally original and widely distributed style since the Gothic.” The exhibition, became like a catalogue,that laid the principles