Ward Miller, UNESCO Skyscrapers, Preservation Chicago, Chicago, IL

Jon Voils of Celebrate Libraries® interviews Ward Miller, The Richard H. Driehaus Executive Director of Preservation Chicago, about land development and preserving Chicago’s historic building stock. Foremost in the conversation is an application to add nine significant early skyscrapers representing the Chicago School of architecture to UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list.

Miller coauthored The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan which is available to the public for study in the Art Institute of Chicago’s Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.

Useful Links:

https://www.preservationchicago.org/early-chicago-skyscrapers-for-unesco-world-heritage-site-designation-by-aia-chicago-and-preservation-chicago-2

https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6235

https://www.artic.edu/library/discover-our-collections

https://www.preservationchicago.org/long-format-ward-miller-interview-regarding-chicago-school-skyscraper-unesco-nomination/

Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago

 

 

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