Handbook for architects and builders
A professional reference volume issued by the Illinois Society of Architects in Chicago from 1898 onward, compiling building codes, materials data, and contractor listings for practicing architects, builders, and engineers in the Midwest. The plates mix halftone photographs of brick and terra-cotta commercial blocks with pencil rendering of tall steel-frame office buildings seen from low corner viewpoints, offering designers repeating window grids, heavy cornice lines, smokestacks, and grainy street-level facades.
