John Wellborn Root - Wikipedia
John Wellborn Root (January 10, 1850 – January 15, 1891) was an American architect who was based in Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders of the Chicago School style.
John Wellborn Root - Encyclopedia Britannica
2025年1月11日 · John Wellborn Root was an architect, one of the greatest practitioners in the Chicago school of commercial American architecture. His works are among the most distinguished early attempts at a mature aesthetic expression …
John Wellborn Root - New Georgia Encyclopedia
2002年7月30日 · The architect John Wellborn Root, a Georgia native, became one of the key figures in the nationally significant Chicago school of skyscraper design. He designed one of the most significant buildings in Atlanta, the Equitable Building. Root was born in Lumpkin in 1850 and grew up in Atlanta.
Burnham and Root - Wikipedia
Burnham and Root was one of Chicago 's most famous architectural companies of the nineteenth century. It was established by Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn Root. During their eighteen years of partnership, Burnham and Root designed and built …
John Wellborn Root - WTTW Chicago
A partner with Daniel Burnham in the firm of Burnham & Root, John Wellborn Root was instrumental in the design of dozens of important Chicago buildings, including the Rookery, the Monadnock Building and the Masonic Temple.
The Incandescent John Wellborn Root - Classic Chicago Magazine
2021年9月18日 · John Wellborn Root was a brilliant, original and thoroughly delightful man. Although he was clearly among the greatest architects in Chicago history, his talents swept in every direction throughout the visual arts and music.
John Wellborn Root - Encyclopedia.com
2018年5月21日 · John Wellborn Root (1850-1891) lent his name and artistic genius to one of nineteenth-century America's most famed architectural firms, Burnham and Root. Their Chicago office designed and built some of the tallest commercial buildings in the world.
This brilliant architect and designer, John Wellborn Root
January 15, 2021, marks the 130th anniversary of the death of architect John Wellborn Root in 1891 at the age of 41. As Consulting Architect to the 1893 World’s Fair with his partner Daniel Burnham, Root’s invaluable contributions are recorded by Harriet Monroe in her chapter “The World’s Columbian Exposition” in John
The architecture of John Wellborn Root : Hoffmann, Donald : …
2019年1月2日 · xviii, 263 pages 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-255) The first thirty years : 1850-1879 -- A beginning : 1880-1885 -- The rookery -- The milieu of the Chicago School -- Kansas City, Cleveland, and San Francisco : 1886-1889 -- Chicago and elsewhere : 1888-1889 -- The Monadnock block -- The Reliance Building : metamorphosis -- …
John Wellborn Root - The Historical Marker Database
2021年12月7日 · John Wellborn Root's architectural designs helped to establish Chicago as the birthplace of modern architecture. After the Great Fire of 1871, Root came here from New York City to take part in the rebuilding of Chicago.