Sublime

During the two decades between the founding of Hull House and the 1909Plan of Chicago, the city doubled in population from one to two million,25 withthe majority of newcomers being low-income migrants from Europe and ruralAmerica. While both Jane Addams and Daniel Burnham shared a progressive-minded zeal to “improve” the city of Chicago, their... See more

During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her “ecosocial” interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fuller’s ecological utopianism... See more