They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel's Struggle to Save America's Architecture

By Richard Cahan

Book Overview

"Richard Nickel, whom I had the delight of knowing during his all too brief life, is one of the unsung heroes of Chicago architecture. He was not an architect himself, nor a designer. He simply took pictures, but what pictures He was, for want of a better description, one of the most sensitive of architectural photographers. More than that, his life--and ironically, tragically and poetically, his death--were fused to Chicago architecture. How he died tells us how he lived: for the beauty in the works of Sullivan, Wright and the others. His story is one that must be told." -- Studs Terkel , author "He was completely understanding of architecture and genius and of the quality of the work he was dealing with. He was single-minded in his pursuit and dedication to quality in history, art and architecture. That is an increasingly rare quality." -- Ada Louise Huxtable , former New York Times architecture critic "Richard was an excellent photographer--sensitive and intelligent, and a very good craftsman." -- John Szarkowski , former Director, Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York "Richard Nickel was one of those who saw architecture, and who passionately and skillfully pursued its portrayal. He was one of a very small number, and to make his work known would be a fundamental service to architects, students, and teachers as well as to the art of architecture." -- Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. , architectural historian

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471144266
• ISBN13: 9780471144267
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.9" x 8.2"