From chicagotribune.com Oak Park expanded its Frank Lloyd Wright Historic District boundaries Tuesday, adding 444 homes to the area once declared one of America’s 10 great neighborhoods. The expansion brings the total number of homes in the district to 1,934,...
Bruce Graham. Gene Summers. And now, Jacques Brownson. Over the last two years, it's been my sad duty to write the obituaries for these critical figures in post-World War II Chicago architecture. But to review their careers is to respect...
From tomorrow's print edition By John P. Huston Tribune reporter A Schaumburg-based developer who had initially intended to demolish two Prairie-style homes in Wilmette, one of which preservationist say has a direct tie to Frank Lloyd Wright, said he is...
Jacques Brownson, the chief architect of Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Center, the steely, broad-shouldered modernist skyscraper that ranks among Chicago’s greatest post-World World II designs, died Sunday at McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colo. He was 88 years old. The...
It's not uncommon for a Prairie Style house designed by a follower of Frank Lloyd Wright to go on the market. What's unusual about the Prairie Style house in north suburban Wilmette that's up for sale is that architectural researchers...