“Review of *The Chicago School of Architecture: Early Followers of Sullivan and Wright*, by Mark L. Peisch”

AboutA sharply critical review faulting Mark L. Peisch's book (a Columbia doctoral dissertation) for using the term "Chicago School" to mean the residential Wright-influenced school rather than the tall-building commercial school, while devoting most of its actual content to Walter Burley Griffin's career (including his 1912 win of the international competition for Canberra, Australia) rather than to the broader group of architects named in its title — Purcell and Elmslie, Louis Sullivan, Barry Byrne, Hugh Garden, William Drummond, George Maher, and Marion Mahony. Brooks documents numerous factual errors, singling out the book's incorrect birth year for William Gray Purcell (given as 1890 on one page and 1885 on another, when Purcell was actually born in 1880) as emblematic of its unreliable treatment of everyone besides Griffin.

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