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Library lecture will explore the growth of Chicago architecture
By Gabriel Miller
Library Communications
Posted 10/10/2004
MADISON, Wis. -- Author and lecturer Jane Harshaw Clarke will explore the growth of architecture in Chicago's history during a lecture on Thursday, October 14, at 4:30 p.m. in 126 Memorial Library.
Over the course of 200 years, Chicago has grown from a tiny frontier fort to one of the world’s most beautiful cities, famous for its architecture since the late nineteenth century. Clarke will highlight the great periods in Chicago's architectural history, from the First Chicago School of the late-19th century through the setback skyscrapers of the 1920s and into the International Style of the postwar years. Her lecture will conclude with an introduction to the city’s recent architectural addition, Millennium Park.
Clarke is an adjunct lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago and a contributor to the 1990 book The Sky's the Limit: A Century of Chicago Skyscrapers. Her lecture is sponsored by the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
