“Review of *They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel's Struggle to Save America's Architecture*, by Richard Cahan”

AboutReview of Richard Cahan's 1994 biography of architectural photographer and preservation advocate Richard Nickel, whose Institute of Design graduate work surveying Louis Sullivan's buildings grew into a campaign to salvage ornament and, later, entire structures from demolition, beginning with the failed effort to save Chicago's Garrick Theater (1891). Davidson traces Nickel's evolving role in Chicago's postwar preservation movement, his documentation work for the Historic American Building Survey, his ornament collections placed at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the Art Institute of Chicago, and the book's account of his death in the ruins of the Chicago Stock Exchange Building in April 1972.

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