AIA Guide to Chicago
by American Institute of Architects Chicago, edited by Laurie McGovern Petersen
University of Illinois Press, June 2022

Paperback | 5 x 10 inches | 648 pages | 580 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780252086731 | $42.95 | "The new fourth edition of the acclaimed guidebook" (click here for publisher's description and author bio)
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Architectural Guide Chicago: A Critic's Guide to 100 Post-Modern Buildings in Chicago from 1978 to 2025by Vladimir Belogolovsky
DOM Publishers, August 2022

Paperback | 5-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 280 pages | 745 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783869224183 | ?38 | "This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism ? under the premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s, but is, in fact, still with us today." (click here for publisher's description and author bio) REFERRAL LINKS:
   
REVIEW:
Full disclosure: I wrote a guidebook to Chicago architecture, too. A few years ago I teamed up with the Chicago Architecture Center and wrote Guide to Chicago's Twenty-First-Century Architecture, which was published by University of Illinois Press in 2021. Obviously I cannot review my own book, and ethically it would be unfair to review the books by Vladimir Belogolovsky and Laurie McGovern Petersen relative to my own. So I'm endeavoring here to be as objective as possible, though I ask for readers to keep in mind ...