Vertical City

摘要

Vertical City brings together sixteen architects to reconsider the 1922 brief for the design of a tower to house the Chicago Tribune. The original competition attracted 263 entries from the US and Europe, which were later published as a report featuring rendered perspectives from the same vantage. The collusion of print media and architecture, in this instance, effectively sealed the imagery of individual towers shown as a collection; as a result, the influence and reach of this particular project drove many responses and copies. The most famous of these was an exhibition of "late entry" drawings organized in 1980 by the Chicago Seven, led by Stanley Tigerman, which gathered a contemporaneous cross section of architectural ideas and influences. The Chicago Seven's version of the competition was decidedly paper-oriented. Problems of language and ornament that, in 1922, were occupied with the building production, were in 1980 relocated to the drawing production, which was more characteristic of the period.