Jean Castex

Professor of Architectural History and President of the
Executive Council of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture
de Versailles

Chicago, City of the Future, 1910-1930,
and transformation of the river area around the loop

Tuesday, October 24th, 6:00 PM

School of Architecture Annual Fund

Jean Castex is an architect and has a Ph.D. in urban planning. He is the author of several works, including Renaissance, baroque et classicisme, histoire de l’architecture 1420–1720 (Paris 1990; reissued 2004); “Borromini et Mansart, les règles de l’extraordinaire,” in Borromini en perspective (2003); Frank Lloyd Wright, le Printemps de la Prairie House (Bruxelles, Liège 1987); and “Darwin, Wright and the Typology of the Prairie House,” in Rassegna, 74, The Prairie School, 1988.