John Zukowsky
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Website : Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
Chief curator of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Former John H. Bryan Curator of Architecture, Art Institute of Chicago. Author of Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture (2004); Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923–1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis (2000); and Skyscrapers: The New Millennium (2000), among others. Contributor and Editor of 2001: Building for Space Travel (2001); Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis and The Architecture of Von Gerkan, Marg & Partners (1998), and Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation (1996).
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Industrial design, the design of mass-produced consumer products. Industrial designers, often trained as architects or other visual arts professionals, are usually part of a larger creative team. Their primary responsibility is to help produce manufactured items that not only work well but please…
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Publications (4)
Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture (2004)
Chicago is universally recognized as the cradle of modern architecture. It is known worldwide for the development, beginning in the late 1800s, of the renowned "Chicago School" of commercial building. In the early 1900s, Chicago saw the birth of Wright's "Prairie School" of residential design, which gave rise to the modern, open-plan house we know today. Other world-renowned architects were also based in Chicago, such as Louis Sullivan, who designed the Chicago Stock Exchange, and Daniel Burnham,...
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Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923-1993 Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis (2000)
An in-depth survey of the formative years of Chicago's modern architecture and design from 1923-1993.
Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation (October 1996)
Air travel has influenced the architecture and design of our century to a perhaps even greater degree than the automobile. This lavishly illustrated, expertly researched book traces the history of that influence, examining the development of airports around the world, as well as such related building types and topics as aircraft factories, maintenance hangars, notable airplane designs, and airline corporate imagery.
Written by experts from Britain, Germany, Holland, and the U.S. - among them...
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Written by experts from Britain, Germany, Holland, and the U.S. - among them...
Hudson River Villas (1985)
More than three hundred superb photographs--with fifty pages in color--and historical drawings document over 120 imposing villas and grand estates built up and down the Hudson River Valley over the last three hundred years