Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan's Lost Masterpiece
Edited by Jon Vinci, with contributions by Tim Samuelson, Eric Nordstrom, Chris Ware
Alphawood Foundation (distributed by University of Minnesota Press), October 2021
Hardcover | 8 x 13 inches | 352 pages | 250 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781517912802 | $45.00 | "A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago?s greatest lost buildings" (click here for publisher's description and author bio)
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On February 26, Wrightwood 659 wrapped up its extended run of Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan & Wright, presenting two exhibitions simultaneously: Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan?s Lost Masterpiece, curated by John Vinci with Tim Samuelson, Chris Ware, and Eric Nordstrom; and Reimagining the Larkin: Frank Lloyd Wright?s Modern Icon, curated by Jonathan D. Katz. For architects educated in the modern idiom, like myself, Wright's Larkin Building ? an office building built in Buffalo, New York, in 1904 and demolished in 1950 ? is familiar, discussed in architectural history classes for its monumentality, large atrium, division of work areas, and early adoption of air conditioning. On the other hand, the Garrick ? a mixed-use building that opened in Chicago's Loop in 1892 as the Schiller Theatre Building and was demolished in 1961 under its newer, more familiar name, replaced by parking ? is lesser ...