October 22

Joanna Merwood- Salisbury shed slight on how the designers perceived their ideas and how their buildings represented them but also the city they were built in and America at the time. She mentioned that the sky scraper buildings in Chicago were very vernacular in appearance which at the time reflected how the designer were perceiving America at the time and as well as the future. The designers saw a dynamic, fertile, and positive outlook about the city and that reflect in the skyscraper's that were designed by them. In a sense they were building for a better society. Other perceived the buildings as a sense of capitalism but that wasn't the objective of the designers. They wanted to show the growth that America was going through.