作为摩天大楼的诞生地，芝加哥以影响全球建筑的建筑传统而闻名。它是现代建筑的摇篮。它带来了城市办公楼和今天住宅的流动、开放式设计图。《芝加哥建筑与设计》记录了这座城市从19世纪到21世纪初的建筑：从结构简单的芝加哥学派商业建筑到低矮的草原学派住宅，从流线型的装饰派艺术的摩天大楼到极简主义的密斯式玻璃和钢塔，一直到当今第二个现代时期的惊人原创和多样化的设计。它研究了在更广阔的历史、社会、技术和艺术潮流背景下的现代建筑的演变，并探索了使大楼不断变高的新方法。第三版增加了过去十年的10座新建筑，包括Renzo Piano的Modern Wing of the Art Institute，John Ronan的Poetry Foundation和 Helmut Jahn在芝加哥大学建造的Mansueto图书馆。

The birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago is famous for an architectural tradition that has influenced building around the globe. It is the cradle of modern architecture. It gave rise to the urban office building and to the flowing, open floor plans of today’s homes. Chicago Architecture and Designchronicles the city’s architecture from the 19th through the early 21st century: from the structural simplicity of Chicago School commercial building to the low-slung Prairie School house, from the streamlined Art Deco skyscraper to the minimalist Miesian tower of glass and steel, and all the way through to the strikingly original, diverse designs of the present day’s second modern period. It examines the evolution of modern architecture in the context of broader historical, social, technological, and artistic currents and explores innovations that pushed buildings ever higher. This third edition adds 10 new buildings from the last decade, including Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing of the Art Institute, John Ronan’s Poetry Foundation, and Helmut Jahn’s Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago.