Chicago Tribune Tower II - Late Entry, Variation on a Theme #WG-23

Description

Fred Koetter’s project illustrates an idea about how technologies from both past and present might exist in a single building. This experimental proposal took as its base the glass-and-steel curtain wall of Walter Gropius’s Tribune entry, which Koetter “deformed” and activated by applying a futuristic, pneumatic system to the frame.

Chicago Tribune Tower II - Late Entry, Variation on a Theme #WG-23

Fred Koetter

1980

Accession Number

103852

Medium

Ink and wash on paper

Dimensions

152.5 × 76.2 cm (60 1/16 × 30 in.)

Classification

presentation drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Architecture Society Fellows Fund