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content and historical references in their buildings. Nagle commented on the state of affairs that prompted the intervention of the Chicago Seven: "It wasn't Mies that got boring. It was the copiers that got boring,... You got off an airplane in the 1970s, and you didn't know where you were."
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for the 1978 project "the exquisite corpse" which produced variations on the Chicago townhouse to "demonstrate the harmonious variety of a cityscape allowed to develop through minimally controlled 'accident'." These townhouses were characterised by their abandoning the modernist rules, the
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modification of the structural grid, the introduction of barrel vaults and historical references. As Nagle put it, "a lot of it really had to do with history... The appreciation of history made us all much better architects." Beeby's townhouse was strongly influenced by
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Oral History of James Lee Nagle, interviewed by Annemarie van Roessel, compiled under the auspices of the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings, Department of Architecture, the Art Institute of
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Seven Chicago architects: Thomas Hall Beeby, Laurence Booth, Stuart E. Cohen, James Ingo Freed, James L. Nagle, Stanley Tigerman and Ben Weese
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In 2005, the Chicago Architectural Club organized a reunion of the Chicago Seven at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art,
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The nucleus of the group formed in protest against the travelling exhibition
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The Seven brought their ideas to a broader audience through their teaching,
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Rebelling against the oppressive institutionalized predominance of the
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who stood trial in the city from September 1969 until February 1970.
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The language of post-modern architecture. The fifth edition
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First-generation post-modern group of architects in Chicago
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Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives.
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Index

postmodern
architects
Chicago
Stanley Tigerman
Larry Booth
Stuart Cohen
Ben Weese
James Ingo Freed
Tom Beeby
James L. Nagle
doctrine
modernism
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
semantic
exhibitions
symposia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Time-Life Building
anti-Vietnam war
Chicago Seven
Helmut Jahn
Palladio
facade
Serliana
Gerald Horn
Kenneth Schroeder
Cynthia Weese


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