John Vinci: Life and Landmarks

Vinci's story is interwoven with so many different and important strands in Chicago s architectural history that John Vinci serves as a short primer on many of them, including the First and Second Chicago Schools of Architecture, the birth of the historic preservation movement, Louis Sullivan, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alfred Caldwell, Richard Nickel, James Speyer, Tim Samuelson, and Myron Goldsmith, as well as numerous art collectors and curators who became mentors and clients. --Geoffrey Baer, WTTW

He has collaborated with Robert Sharoff on six books, including Last Is More: Mies, IBM, and the Transformation of Chicago; American City: St. ROBERT SHAROFF writes about architecture and real estate for the New York Times, Chicago Magazine, and other publications. WILLIAM ZBAREN is an architectural photographer for the New York Times, Architectural Record, and other publications. Louis Architecture, Three Centurie

John Vinci: Life and Landmarks is the first authoritative survey of the life and work of one of Chicago s most acclaimed architects and preservationists. This illustrated biography traces Vinci s origins as a child of Italian immigrants on Chicago s South Side and his coming of age at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which was then under the direction of the legendary Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. It follows his career through his subsequent immersion in the historic preservation movement and the work of such early Chicago architects as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Wellborn Root. Vinci s pioneering restoration projects include Frank Lloyd Wright s Robie House and Home Studio, Sullivan s Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Carson Pirie Scott Building, and Root s Monadnock Building. A comprehensive catalogue raisonné rounds out this handsome and defini