Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection of first-rate buildings in every possible style since late nineteenth-century industrialization. This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernismunder the premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s, but is, in fact, still with us today. Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky presents 100 structures, most of which were created after the turn of the millennium. These lavishly illustrated building descriptions are supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago architects, including Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn and Jeanne Gang.

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Vladimir Belogolovsky (b. 1970, Odesa, Ukraine) is an American curator and critic. He has lived in New York City since 1989. He graduated from The Cooper Union School of Architecture there in 1996. After practicing architecture for 12 years, he founded his New Yorkbased Curatorial Project, a non-profit that focuses on curating and designing architectural exhibitions around the world. Belogolovsky writes for Arquitectura Viva (Madrid) and AZURE (Toronto) and is a columnist on ArchDaily and STIR. He has interviewed more than 400 leading international architects and has written 15 books, including China Dialogues (ORO Editions, 2022), Imagine Buildings Floating Like Clouds (IMAGES, 2022), Architectural Guide New York (DOM publishers, 2019), Conversations with Architects (DOM publishers, 2015), and Soviet Modernism: 19551985 (TATLIN, 2010). Belogolovsky has curated and produced over 50 international exhibitions. Among these are Architects' Voices Series (world tour since 2016), world tours on the work of Emilio Ambasz (20172018) and Harry Seidler (since 2012, including at IIT's S.R. Crown Hall in 2017), the Green House exhibition at the Zodchestvo International Architecture Festival in Moscow (2009), and the Chess Game exhibition for the Russian Pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale (2008). He has lectured at universities and museums in more than 30 countries. In 2018, Belogolovsky spent the fall semester teaching design studio at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a visiting scholar.