Southern Exposure

The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side

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Pub Date 15 Oct 2019 | Archive Date 7 Dec 2019

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Description

Chicago South Side represents two-thirds of the city and is the birthplace of many of the most emblematic parts of Chicago culture. Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side’s rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage.

With lively, insightful text and gallery-quality color photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, Southern Exposure documents the remarkable and largely unsung architecture of the South Side. The book features an array of landmarks—from a Space Age dry cleaner to a nineteenth-century lagoon that meanders down the middle of a working-class neighborhood street—that are largely absent from arts discourse, in no small part because they sit in a predominantly African American and Latino section of town that’s better known as a place of disinvestment, abandonment, and violence.


Inspired by Bey’s 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial exhibition, Southern Exposure visits sixty sites, including lesser-known but important work by luminaries such as Jeanne Gang, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Eero Saarinen, as well as buildings by pioneering black architects such as Walter T. Bailey, John Moutoussamy, and Roger Margerum.

Pushing against the popular narrative that depicts Chicago’s South Side as an architectural wasteland, Bey shows beautiful and intact buildings and neighborhoods that reflect the value—and potential—of the area. Southern Exposure offers much to delight architecture aficionados and writers, native Chicagoans and guests to the city alike.

Chicago South Side represents two-thirds of the city and is the birthplace of many of the most emblematic parts of Chicago culture. Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South...


Advance Praise

"For me, this collection of images in Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is like Christmas every day." —artist

"For me, this collection of images in Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is like Christmas every day." —artist


Marketing Plan

The author is working with Jennifer Bridgeforth marketing for events. All book-related publicity questions should be directed to JD Wilson, jdwilson@northwestern.edu

The author is working with Jennifer Bridgeforth marketing for events. All book-related publicity questions should be directed to JD Wilson, jdwilson@northwestern.edu


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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780810140981
PRICE US$30.00 (USD)
PAGES 186

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Visually stimulating while also being informative, SOUTHERN EXPOSURE is great for anyone interested in architecture, photography or Chicago and its history.

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