About Buildings + Cities

23 – Chicago Tribune – 2 of 2 – Honourable Mentions


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We conclude our discussion of the 1922 Chicago Tribune competition, going through a few of the less favoured entries, and discussing how it’s been seen and understood in the years since. Apologies for some clipping on the audio – we’ve tried to edit most of it out but some is still left.

As before, you can see all the entries in this book

We discuss the entries of –

Walter Gropius (197)
Adolf Loos (196)
Paul Gerhardt (159 & 160)
Saverio Dioguardi (248)
Vittorio Pino (252)
Alfred Fellheimer & Steward Wagner (158) – the big pyramid
Emile Pohle & Adolf Ott (200) – the bridge
Walter Fischer (221)
Bruno & Max Taut (231, 229)
Gerhardt Schröder (228)
Fritz Sackermann (225)
Anonymous (281) 

Plus anonymous entries by – 

Hans Scharoun
Wassili Luckhardt

Manfredo Tafuri’s 'The Disenchanted Mountain' — published in ‘The American City’ (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1979)

Ludwig Hilberseimer’s unentered design

Hugh Feriss’s Envelope Drawings

Pier Vittorio Aureli’s ‘The Barest Form in which Architecture Can Exist’

The book of ‘Late Entries’ can be found here

Diana Agrest ‘Architectural Anagrams’ in Oppositions 11

Music includes

Collins and Harlan ‘The International Rag’
King Olivers Creole Jazz Band ‘Just Gone’
…both from the Free Music Archive and first heard on the excellent Antique Phonograph Music Program

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