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Midwest Architecture Journeys
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The Midwest finally gets its due through essays penned by architects and critics, who shine a much-deserved spotlight on the region's architecture, from its celebrated landmarks to its lesser-known projects.
Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright may be the Midwest's (and the nation's) most famous architects, but the region has always been a fertile ground for builders master and amateur. Midwest Architecture Journeys takes readers on a trip to visit some of the region's most inventive buildings by architects such as
This copiously illustrated perfect coffee table book, with its dozens of gorgeous photographs, proves that what might seem flat is actually monumental, and what we assume to be boring is brimming with experimentation. Perfect for your next road trip.
A reexamination of overlooked Midwestern architectural styles
Zach Mortice is a freelance architecture journalist based in Chicago. His work has appeared in Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Curbed, Dezeen, CityLab, and Places Journal. He founded the Chicago design and architecture podcast A Lot You Got to Holler, and is currently the web editor for Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic whose essays, reviews, and features have appeared in design journals, New York magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Curbed, Design Observer, Dezeen, and many other publications. She received a PhD in twentieth-century architecture history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is the author of Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the e-book The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism, and co-author of Design Research: The Story that Brought Modern Living to American Homes. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
A perfect coffee table book. -- Taylor Moore, in Curbed Chicago
A vital collection of essays. -- Curbed, 101 Books About Where and How We Live
Chicago Tribune Fall Literary Preview: 28 books you need to read now Chicago ingenuity, and that of the greater Midwest, is on display in a range of fall books. "Midwest Architecture Journeys" by Zach Mortice (Oct. 15, Belt, 256 pages, $40) explores some of the region's most intriguing buildings (Bruce Goff's Ford house, Fermilab) and under-the-radar sites (parking lots, grain silos). -- Laura Pearson, Chicago Tribune
The Midwest finally gets its due through essays penned by architects and critics, who shine a much-deserved spotlight on the region's architecture, from its celebrated landmarks to its lesser-known projects. -- Metropolis magazine's Gift Guide 2019
The Midwest has been a hub for all of our American architectural dreams for decades, but maybe an overlooked one save for the big names like Wright and Mies. Thankfully, Belt Publishing has finally come up with a book that's both handsome and smart enough to fit on your shelf or coffee table, highlighting forgotten masterpieces from all over the region.--Inside Hook
Those who dismiss it as flyover country likely picture wide open spaces -- flat and unexciting. Those who know slightly better but haven't spent any serious time pondering the area probably first think of Frank Lloyd Wright or big glass buildings. But the architecture in the Midwest is so much more: weird, innovative, sophisticated and above all, diverse, ranging from the oddball designs of Bertrand Goldberg (who designed Chicago's famous Marina Towers) and the socially conscious work of Lillian Leenhouts to unheralded anonymous gems like flea markets, grain silos, rest stops, indigenous mounds and parking lots. -- Bonnie Stiernberg in Inside Hook
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- Belt Publishing Brand
- Oct 15, 2019 Pub Date:
- 1948742578 ISBN-10:
- 9781948742573 ISBN-13:
- 256 Pages
- 10.1 in * 8.2 in * 1 in Dimensions:
- 3 lb Weight:
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