World’s Columbian Exposition design team

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The World’s Columbian Exposition design team was the group of architects, planners, and artists responsible for creating the overall layout and monumental Beaux-Arts buildings of the 1893 Chicago world’s fair, known as the “White City.”

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artistic collaboration
planning committee
activeForEvent World’s Columbian Exposition
alsoKnownAs World’s Columbian Exposition design team
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World’s Columbian Exposition design team
surface form: World’s Columbian Exposition architectural commission
chiefLandscapeArchitect Frederick Law Olmsted
colorScheme white
commissionedBy World’s Columbian Exposition Company
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designStyle Beaux-Arts
neoclassical architecture
endYear 1893
eventYear 1893
field architecture
landscape architecture
mural painting
sculpture
urban planning
headArchitect Daniel Burnham
influenced American Beaux-Arts architecture
City Beautiful movement in the United States
locatedIn Illinois
location City of Chicago
surface form: Chicago
member Adler & Sullivan
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Charles B. Atwood
Charles Follen McKim
Daniel Burnham
Edward Emerson Simmons
Francis Davis Millet
Frank M. Howe
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick MacMonnies
George B. Post
Henry Van Brunt
John Wellborn Root
Louis Sullivan
Peabody & Stearns
Richard Morris Hunt
Solon Spencer Beman
Stanford White
William Rutherford Mead
name World’s Columbian Exposition design team self-link
nicknameOrigin White City
notableWork Jackson Park
surface form: Beaux-Arts court and lagoon ensemble at Jackson Park

White City
responsibleFor coordinated classical architectural style of the fairgrounds
design of monumental Beaux-Arts exhibition buildings
integration of architecture, sculpture, and landscape at the fair
overall site plan of the World’s Columbian Exposition
startYear 1890
timePeriod late 19th century

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