The World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, inspired civic leaders across America to embark upon beautification and planning schemes known as the City Beautiful Movement. In Pittsburgh, this inspiration resulted in the development of the Oakland Civic Center, which between the early 1890s and 1920s was filled with an impressive number of public buildings such as the Carnegie Institute, a grand hotel, private clubs, institutions of higher learning, public landscaping with fountains, and even a world-class baseball stadium. The course will focus on this development through its movements and some of the city’s finest architects who were responsible for Civic Center architecture: Alden and Harlow, Henry Hornbostel, and Benno Janssen among them. The course also focuses on the individuals who were primarily responsible for creating the Civic Center: Edward Bigelow, the father of Pittsburgh’s parks; philanthropist Andrew Carnegie; the real estate developer Franklin Nicola; and University of Pittsburgh Chancellor John Bowman.
((Robert Jucha - Tuesday - In Person: CMU Campus))
