Sharon Irish
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Irish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Irish |
| SIGNATURE | IRISH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Performance of Information Flows in the Art of Stephen Willats
In the 1970s artist Stephen Willats wanted to explore participation and interaction within an art context. He viewed participation and interaction as ways to help those involved in art gain control of their environments. With that in mind, he created the means to collect, sort, code, process, and use data to foster exchanges, essentially performing information flows using computers to help examine social systems. Willats expanded his art beyond a…
The Plan of Chicago
Reviewed by: The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City Sharon Irish (bio) The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. By Carl Smith . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006 Pp. xvii+183. $22. In 2005, an electronic counterpart of The Encyclopedia of Chicago featured two interpretive digital essays, one on water and the other by Carl Smith on the 1909 "Plan of Chicago" (see James R…
Preservation, Polemics, and Power
Preservation, Polemics, and Power:Carl W. Condit, The Chicago School of Architecture Sharon Irish (bio) In 1952 the University of Chicago Press published a book by a thirty-eight-year-old assistant professor of English and humanities at Northwestern University, Carl W. Condit, titled The Rise of the Skyscraper . Twelve years later, in 1964, this book was revised, expanded, and published as The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commerci…
Chicago Architecture
Reviewed by: Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives Sharon L. Irish (bio) Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives. Edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Rüedi Ray. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii+488. $40. Twenty-eight essays and more than 300 illustrations in Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives provide the reader with a wide array of representations of the city and i…
The Digital City
Reviewed by Sharon L. Irish The Digital City: The American Metropolis and Information Technology. By Michel S. Laguerre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xiv+211. $75. In the July 2005 issue of Technology and Culture, in his article titled "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy," Fred Turner wrote about "the origins of virtual community." Turner cited Manuel Castells's observation that "the electronics industry and its geographical …
The American Skyscraper
Reviewed by: The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories Sharon L. Irish (bio) The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories. Edited by Roberta Moudry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 281. $75. This volume edited by Roberta Moudry is a welcome anthology of recent scholarship on the history of the tall commercial building, primarily between 1880 and 1950 in New York and Chicago. The American Skyscraper has thirteen essays that presen…
Millennium Park, Chicago
2006). Millennium Park, Chicago: A Sensory Delight, Part I. The Senses and Society: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 93-103
Millennium Park, Chicago
Engineering Architecture
Reviewed by: Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan Sharon Irish (bio) Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan. By Yasmin Sabina Khan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Pp. 416. $55. Yasmin Sabina Khan has written an engaging intellectual biography of her father, the acclaimed civil engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929–82). As a structural engineer herself, she is well able to discuss F. R. Khan's important contributions to…
Big Plans
The two touchstones for Kenneth Kolson in Big Plans are Lewis Mumford's The City in History and Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, both first published in 1961. Kolson takes his own book's title from a quote attributed to Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912), the Chicago-based [End Page 212] architect whose large-scale planning and monumental civic buildings were anathema to both Mumford and Jacobs: "Make no little plans; they ha…
New York City Skyline, about 1915
How fragile the negative that holds this image of the New York City skyline. How fragile, indeed, is all of human creation. Our eyes travel over the slight curve of the Brooklyn Bridge, suspended above the East River, to the jagged saw-edge of a city cutting into our thoughts these days. From left to right, south to north, the more prominent skyscrapers can be identified: the Bankers Trust (1912), the Equitable (1915), the Singer (1908), the City…
The Fireproof Building
Raise your hand if you regularly examine the escape routes posted on the doors of hotel rooms. Probably not many hands went up. As Sara Wermiel concludes in her admirably researched book, the "infrastructure of safety" composed of laws and technology is now largely invisible. The horror of devastating factory fires and urban conflagrations is remote to most of us. But this distance from awful loss of life, heat-fused glass, twisted metal columns,…
From Craft to Profession
Not so long ago we witnessed the death of the Author; Mary Woods's book, in a sense, traces the death of the private architectural practice in America. In analyzing the metamorphosis of the architect from artisan to businessman, Woods traces the subsumption of the architectural creation process by large bureaucracies, with an architect being just one more cog in the great American corporate wheel. While writers like Kenneth Boulding in The Organi…
Essays in Honor of Carl W. Condit
While in an American architecture class at the University of New Mexico, I happened to pick up and read through Carl Condit's Rise of the Skyscraper, the focus and clarity of which made me decide to apply to Northwestern University's graduate school in art history where Condit was chairman. During my first year at Northwestern, in 1978, I registered for part 1 of Condit's three-quarter of Building Techniques. Subsequently, I took two other classe…
"A "Machine That Makes the Land Pay
Sharon Irish, A "Machine That Makes the Land Pay": The West Street Building in New York, Technology and Culture, Vol. 30, No. 2, Special Issue: Essays in Honor of Carl W. Condit (Apr., 1989), pp. 376-397
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Essays in Honor of Carl W. Condit
While in an American architecture class at the University of New Mexico, I happened to pick up and read through Carl Condit's Rise of the Skyscraper, the focus and clarity of which made me decide to apply to Northwestern University's graduate school in art history where Condit was chairman. During my first year at Northwestern, in 1978, I registered for part 1 of Condit's three-quarter of Building Techniques. Subsequently, I took two other classe…
"A "Machine That Makes the Land Pay
Sharon Irish, A "Machine That Makes the Land Pay": The West Street Building in New York, Technology and Culture, Vol. 30, No. 2, Special Issue: Essays in Honor of Carl W. Condit (Apr., 1989), pp. 376-397
From Craft to Profession
Not so long ago we witnessed the death of the Author; Mary Woods's book, in a sense, traces the death of the private architectural practice in America. In analyzing the metamorphosis of the architect from artisan to businessman, Woods traces the subsumption of the architectural creation process by large bureaucracies, with an architect being just one more cog in the great American corporate wheel. While writers like Kenneth Boulding in The Organi…
The Fireproof Building
Raise your hand if you regularly examine the escape routes posted on the doors of hotel rooms. Probably not many hands went up. As Sara Wermiel concludes in her admirably researched book, the "infrastructure of safety" composed of laws and technology is now largely invisible. The horror of devastating factory fires and urban conflagrations is remote to most of us. But this distance from awful loss of life, heat-fused glass, twisted metal columns,…
New York City Skyline, about 1915
How fragile the negative that holds this image of the New York City skyline. How fragile, indeed, is all of human creation. Our eyes travel over the slight curve of the Brooklyn Bridge, suspended above the East River, to the jagged saw-edge of a city cutting into our thoughts these days. From left to right, south to north, the more prominent skyscrapers can be identified: the Bankers Trust (1912), the Equitable (1915), the Singer (1908), the City…
Big Plans
The two touchstones for Kenneth Kolson in Big Plans are Lewis Mumford's The City in History and Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, both first published in 1961. Kolson takes his own book's title from a quote attributed to Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912), the Chicago-based [End Page 212] architect whose large-scale planning and monumental civic buildings were anathema to both Mumford and Jacobs: "Make no little plans; they ha…
Engineering Architecture
Reviewed by: Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan Sharon Irish (bio) Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan. By Yasmin Sabina Khan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Pp. 416. $55. Yasmin Sabina Khan has written an engaging intellectual biography of her father, the acclaimed civil engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929–82). As a structural engineer herself, she is well able to discuss F. R. Khan's important contributions to…
Chicago Architecture
Reviewed by: Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives Sharon L. Irish (bio) Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives. Edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Rüedi Ray. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii+488. $40. Twenty-eight essays and more than 300 illustrations in Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives provide the reader with a wide array of representations of the city and i…
The Digital City
Reviewed by Sharon L. Irish The Digital City: The American Metropolis and Information Technology. By Michel S. Laguerre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xiv+211. $75. In the July 2005 issue of Technology and Culture, in his article titled "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy," Fred Turner wrote about "the origins of virtual community." Turner cited Manuel Castells's observation that "the electronics industry and its geographical …
The American Skyscraper
Reviewed by: The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories Sharon L. Irish (bio) The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories. Edited by Roberta Moudry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 281. $75. This volume edited by Roberta Moudry is a welcome anthology of recent scholarship on the history of the tall commercial building, primarily between 1880 and 1950 in New York and Chicago. The American Skyscraper has thirteen essays that presen…
Millennium Park, Chicago
2006). Millennium Park, Chicago: A Sensory Delight, Part I. The Senses and Society: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 93-103
Millennium Park, Chicago
The Plan of Chicago
Reviewed by: The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City Sharon Irish (bio) The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. By Carl Smith . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006 Pp. xvii+183. $22. In 2005, an electronic counterpart of The Encyclopedia of Chicago featured two interpretive digital essays, one on water and the other by Carl Smith on the 1909 "Plan of Chicago" (see James R…
Preservation, Polemics, and Power
Preservation, Polemics, and Power:Carl W. Condit, The Chicago School of Architecture Sharon Irish (bio) In 1952 the University of Chicago Press published a book by a thirty-eight-year-old assistant professor of English and humanities at Northwestern University, Carl W. Condit, titled The Rise of the Skyscraper . Twelve years later, in 1964, this book was revised, expanded, and published as The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commerci…
The Performance of Information Flows in the Art of Stephen Willats
In the 1970s artist Stephen Willats wanted to explore participation and interaction within an art context. He viewed participation and interaction as ways to help those involved in art gain control of their environments. With that in mind, he created the means to collect, sort, code, process, and use data to foster exchanges, essentially performing information flows using computers to help examine social systems. Willats expanded his art beyond a…
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