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Chapter 6: Reaching New Heights. Reaching New Heights:. 100,000 people left homeless from the fire The city passes an ordinance banning the construction of wood frame buildings in most of Chicago.
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Reaching New Heights: • 100,000 people left homeless from the fire • The city passes an ordinance banning the construction of wood frame buildings in most of Chicago. • Chicagoans (people that live in Chicago) wanted to rebuild the city bigger and better than before. http://www.local-motors.com/assets/chicago_description_1.jpg
The Chicago School of Architecture • The price of land increases • They wanted to make buildings taller to have large buildings without taking up a lot of land. • The first skyscrapers had very thick walls. This was a waste of space. • William Le Baron Jenney constructed a metal framework so buildings did not have to be very thick at the bottom.
Montauk Building http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/images/62_10496.jpg
Rookery http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/u/Untouchables_Rookery.jpg http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/CAI/Images/200801/TheRookery-Jan07-002a.jpg
Monadnock Building http://blueprintchicago.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/jackson-up1.jpg http://wapedia.mobi/thumb/9ac5499/en/fixed/251/399/MONADNOCK_BUILDING_AERIAL_1910.jpg?format=jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d8dh-Nd9vno/SwMueFvhkAI/AAAAAAAAASc/RvGkqmW8eEw/s1600/Monadnock+Building.jpg
Prairie School of Architecture • Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect. • He wanted to design buildings that fit into their surroundings. • He designed the Robie House, which is on the South Side of Chicago. • His designs focused on horizontal lines rather than vertical.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House in Chicago http://gowright.org/uploads/images/robiehouse/robie-exterior.jpg Horizontal lines http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xEehooYC6Rk/SrOnpkNUR4I/AAAAAAAAAvk/kozW6MGcNAk/s320/frank-lloyd-wright-robie-house-southwest-corner-2.jpg
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater http://www.architectureblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallingwater-frank.jpg http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/766px-falling_water_011.jpg http://www.freewebs.com/jannekevanderlinden/fallingwater01.jpg Horizontal Lines
Labor Unions: an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions • Workers were tired of working hard for little pay. • They wanted to protect their rights. • They created unions. • Unions work as a team to fight for the money or conditions they want.
World’s Columbian Exposition: • Chicago built a temporary city for almost 27 million visitors • The chief planner was Daniel Burnham • They called it the White City because all of the buildings were made of white plaster. • The “White City” had over 200 buildings. • 750,000 people visited daily
Several food companies started at the Exposition: Cracker Jack Aunt Jemima pancake mix Hot dogs Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum
For the Exposition, architects wanted to build something special. • Something greater than the Eiffel Tower. The Ferris Wheel
Scientists traveled all over the Americas to collect samples of the different cultures. • Some of the exhibits were considered not very authentic. • Most of the items are now in the Field Museum
The fair was not all fun. • There was a lot of crime. • During the fair, a man named Herman Webster Mudgett, murdered over 27 people. • He was known as the first serial killer in the United States.
After the Exposition: • Daniel Burnham joined Edward Bennett to create a Plan of Chicago called the Burnham Plan. • The Plan included wider streets, create a better street system, and improve the lakefront.
