Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Essay -- Portfolio -- Residences -- Freeark House (1975) -- Harris Apartment (1988) -- Hillberry House (1988) -- Manilow House (1991) -- Molner Apartment (Chicago) (1992) -- Wetsman House (1994) -- Davis House (2001) -- Molner Apartment (Aspen) (2009) -- Crab Tree Farms -- Bridge & pavilion (1996) -- Guest House (2010) -- Zell Apartment (2013) -- Preservation/Restoration -- Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room (Louis Sullivan) 1977 -- Carson Pirie Scott (Louis Sullivan) 1980 -- Scoville Square (Eben Ezra Roberts) 1982 -- Frank Lloyd Wright Studio (1985) -- Monadnock Building (Burnham & Root) 1985 -- Lake Shore Country Club (Howard van Doren Shaw) 1987 -- Tribune Tower Lobby (Howells & Hood) 1988 -- Graham Chapel (Cope & Stewardson) 1999 -- Beachy House (Frank Lloyd Wright) 2004 -- Cultural Institutions -- Art Institute of Chicago -- Entrance Lobby (1987) -- Stairwell (1987) -- Urns (1988) -- Ryerson Library (1994) -- Impressionist Galleries (2008) -- Arts Club of Chicago (1997) -- Italian Sports Hall (2002) -- Oriental Institute (2005) -- Exhibitions -- Three exhibitions from the Art Institute of Chicago -- Two exhibitions from the Neue Gallery in New York -- Appendix -- From The New Criterion: The Obama Library Double Parks -- From Chicago Architect: Jackin' the Box -- From The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan: Sullivan Alone -- Catalog Raisonne -- Firm Listing -- Bibliography.
Summary:
"John Vinci: Life and Landmarks is the first authoritative survey of the life and work of one of Chicago's most acclaimed architects and preservationists. Long awaited by scholars as well as by architecture aficionados, John Vinci provides an intimate look at an architect whose portfolio spans half a century and includes the restoration of some of the city's most important historic structures as well as numerous award-winning original projects. This illustrated biography traces Vinci's origins as a child of Italian immigrants on Chicago's South Side and his coming of age at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which was then under the direction of the legendary Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. It follows his career through his subsequent immersion in the historic preservation movement and the work of such early Chicago architects as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Wellborn Root. Vinci's pioneering restoration projects include Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House and Home Studio, Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Carson Pirie Scott Building, and Root's Monadnock Building. His original work, meanwhile, includes notable buildings such as the Arts Club of Chicago, numerous award-winning residences, and more than fifty major exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and other museums"-- Provided by publisher.
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