John Vinci : life and landmarks / text by Robert Sharoff ; photographs by William Zbaren.

By:

Sharoff, Robert [author.]

Contributor(s):

Zbaren, William [illustrator.]

Material type: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0810136651
9780810136656

Other title:

Life and landmarks

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

720.92 23

LOC classification:

NA737.V555 S53 2017

Contents:

John Vinci: Life and Landmarks -- Freeark House -- Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room -- Carson Pirie Scott & Co. -- Scoville Square -- Frank Lloyd Wright Studio -- Monadnock Building -- Art Institute of Chicago -- Hilberry-Kandarian House -- Harris Residence -- Manilow House -- Wetsman House -- Molner Residence -- Buchbinder Residence -- Arts Club of Chicago -- Olympian Penthouse -- Davis House -- National Italian American Sports Hall fo Fame -- Beachy House -- Crab Tree Farm -- Catalog Raisonné -- Roll Call.

Summary: "John Vinci: Life and Landmarks is the first authoritative survey of the life and work of one of Chicago's most acclaimed architects and preservationists. Long awaited by scholars as well as by architecture aficionados, John Vinci provides an intimate look at an architect whose portfolio spans half a century and includes the restoration of some of the city's most important historic structures as well as numerous award-winning original projects. This illustrated biography traces Vinci's origins as a child of Italian immigrants on Chicago's South Side and his coming of age at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which was then under the direction of the legendary Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. It follows his career through his subsequent immersion in the historic preservation movement and the work of such early Chicago architects as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Wellborn Root. Vinci's pioneering restoration projects include Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House and Home Studio, Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Carson Pirie Scott Building, and Root's Monadnock Building. His original work, meanwhile, includes notable buildings such as the Arts Club of Chicago, numerous award-winning residences, and more than fifty major exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and other museums"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	720.92 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A527556B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"John Vinci: Life and Landmarks is the first authoritative survey of the life and work of one of Chicago's most acclaimed architects and preservationists. Long awaited by scholars as well as by architecture aficionados, John Vinci provides an intimate look at an architect whose portfolio spans half a century and includes the restoration of some of the city's most important historic structures as well as numerous award-winning original projects. This illustrated biography traces Vinci's origins as a child of Italian immigrants on Chicago's South Side and his coming of age at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which was then under the direction of the legendary Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. It follows his career through his subsequent immersion in the historic preservation movement and the work of such early Chicago architects as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Wellborn Root. Vinci's pioneering restoration projects include Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House and Home Studio, Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Carson Pirie Scott Building, and Root's Monadnock Building. His original work, meanwhile, includes notable buildings such as the Arts Club of Chicago, numerous award-winning residences, and more than fifty major exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and other museums"-- Provided by publisher.

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