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Review: The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan by Richard Nickel and Aaron Siskind with John Vinci and Ward Miller

2012; University of California Press; Volume: 71; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2012.71.2.229

2150-5926

Joseph M. Siry,

Architecture, Modernity, and Design

Book Review| June 01 2012 Review: The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan by Richard Nickel and Aaron Siskind with John Vinci and Ward Miller Richard Nickel and Aaron Siskind with John Vinci and Ward Miller. The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan. Chicago: Richard Nickel Committee, 2010, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 461 pp., 51 color and 758 b/w illus. $95, ISBN 9780966027327 Joseph M. Siry Joseph M. Siry 1Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2012) 71 (2): 229–231. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.2.229 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Joseph M. Siry; Review: The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan by Richard Nickel and Aaron Siskind with John Vinci and Ward Miller. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2012; 71 (2): 229–231. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.2.229 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In its depth and breadth of research, elegance and range of images, and quality and size of production, this book may be without precedent in historical studies of American architecture. Its creation involved extraordinary, ongoing collaboration among architects, historians, preservationists, photographers, curators, librarians, foundations, book designers, printers, and other contributors over nearly sixty years since the project’s inception. It has been so long in development that its creation bridges the prevailing midcentury consensus that Sullivan was a forerunner of the modern movement, and the renewed interest of the later twentieth century in his work’s ornamental richness, a view that coincided with the postmodern architectural movement of the 1980s. This book’s store of information will assist with ongoing efforts to preserve and restore Adler and Sullivan’s extant buildings, and it will help to clarify the original architectural context of ornamental fragments from their works that are today housed in various public... You do not currently have access to this content.