Architectural Guide Chicago. A Critic's Guide to 100 Post-Modern Buildings in Chicago from 1978 to 2025

by Vladimir Belogolovsky

Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection of first-rate buildings in every possible style since late nineteenth-century industrialization. This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism―under the premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s, but is, in fact, still with us today. Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky presents 100 structures, most of which were created after the turn of the millennium. These lavishly illustrated building descriptions are supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago architects, including Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn and Jeanne Gang.

280 pages, Paperback

Published May 17, 2022

Reviews

[Grégoire Maillard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing collection of 100 post-modern buildings in Chicago. I like how the different parts are delimited, some very interesting and "hidden" gems. Maybe a bit too descriptive with some part, and a nice last part with interviews but which are a bit too niche for a non-architecture nerd like me.