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I Love Chicago’s Buildings

A Selective Guide to the City

$29.95

The book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography…
 
Trim: 7 “ x 10” portrait
Extent: 240pp
Binding: Softbound with flaps
ISBN: 978-1-943532-97-1
Cost: $40.00
Pub. Date: April 2022
 
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Description

“Works as a great guide for visitors going to Chicago.”

Additional information

Weight 2 lbs
Dimensions 10 × 10 × 1 in
Size

7" x 10" Portrait

Pages

240pp

Binding

Softbound with flaps

Publication date

April 2022

World rights

ISBN

978-1-943532-97-1

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Details

Overview

The book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography. It is a listing of select pairs of buildings that each articulates a formal and abstract concept that is part of the culture of architecture, spelled with a capital a. The main idea of the book is to hide the bitter pill of academic formal analysis in a dollop of sugary personal anecdotes and humor. Hopefully, this will be creating unexpected juxtapositions that might elicit shock and new perceptions, canceling the sleepy accepted dogma we all live under. The essays will be paring the famous and the infamous, the profound and the absurd, the beloved and the forgotten, the monstrous and the minuscule.

Authors

Christian Bjone is a practicing architect in New York City, educated at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Princeton University. He is the author of four books on art and architectural history, one of which, Art + Architecture: Strategies in Collaboration, has been translated into German.

Additional Info

SKU: 91009
Size: 7.25” x 10” Portrait
Pages: 144pp
Binding: Softbound
Publication Date: May 2022
ISBN: 978-1-954081-69-7
World Rights: Available

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I Love Chicago’s Buildings

“Works as a great guide for visitors going to Chicago.”

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