Competition drawing by Adolf Loos for the Chicago Tribune Tower – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic drawing captures Competition drawing by Adolf Loos for the Chicago Tribune Tower in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Competition drawing by Adolf Loos for the Chicago Tribune Tower
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Among the many entries in the Chicago Tribune's 1922 tower competition, Adolf Loos's proposal stands out for treating the skyscraper as a giant classical column, with a plain base, shaft, and capital instead of ornate Gothic or Beaux-Arts detailing. This plate comes from the 1923 volume that gathered the competition entries, which helped spread the designs to architects far beyond Chicago. Loos, an Austrian architect and critic born in 1870, was known for arguing that modern buildings should drop unnecessary ornament, and his entry is often cited as an early statement of that view.
| Medium | 1 print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1923 |
| Subjects | of drawing. Illus. in: The International Competition..., 1923, plate 196. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ill.--Chicago--Bldgs.; BI--WORKS; Arch.--Drawings...; Shelf. Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,996 px · prints to 5 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135642 |
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