Richard Yoshijiro Mine
American, born Japan, 1894-1981
Competition for the New Tribune Building, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation
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Richard Yoshijiro Mine
American, born Japan, 1894-19811922
Competition for the New Tribune Building, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation
Richard Yoshijiro Mine American, born Japan, 1894-1981 →presentation drawingarchitectural drawing
Date
1922
Medium
Ink, graphite, and wash on paper
Dimensions
140.3 × 59 cm (55 × 23 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Richard Yoshijiro Mine
The 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower competition is perhaps the most well-known contest in Chicago's architectural history. The competition, which elicited 260 designs from firms around the world, proved to be an important international forum for attitudes about the prevailing aesthetic of the tall office building.
This Gothic-inspired entry by Japanese-born architect Richard Mine (1894-1981) received one of 50 honorable mentions in the competition. Mine, a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the time of the competition, went on to work for companies and firms such as General Motors, Kraft Foods, and Holabird, Root and Burgee.
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