The Open University – Arts: a third level course – History of architecture and design 1890-1939 – Units 7-8

CONTENTS:
1. America, the new world
  The American culture
2. The skyscraper
  Chicago, commercial centre of the Midwest
  The Chicago school of architects
  Louis Sullivan
  The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
  Later developments in skyscraper design
3. Frank Lloyd Wright
  Philosophy of early life
  An architecture of space
  An architecture of form
  The final phase
4. The architects of California
  Introduction
  The Greene Brothers
  Irving Gill
  Rudolph Schindler
  Richard Neutra