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Author Schrenk, Lisa Diane.

Title Building a century of progress : the architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair / Lisa D. Schrenk.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  NA6750.C45 C467 2007    Available  ---
Description x, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-343) and index.
Contents The future begins -- Science finds-industry applies-man conforms -- Designing the city of color and delight -- Prefabricated palaces: formal designs of the pavilions -- Building innovations at the exposition -- Exposition houses of today and tomorrow -- Unbuilt visions for a modern exposition -- The contemporary reaction and impact of the exposition -- The curtain falls -- Major buildings and architects of a century of progress -- Color schemes of a century of progress.
Subject Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Buildings.
Century of Progress International Exposition.
Exhibition buildings -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
Exhibition buildings.
Illinois -- Chicago.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
ISBN 9780816648368 hardcover alkaline paper
0816648360 hardcover alkaline paper