The Architecture of Chicago's Beverly Hills/Morgan Park

The Architecture of Chicago's Beverly Hills/Morgan Park is the first complete large-format visual record published of these Southwest Side twin communities in Chicago. The historic and significant architecture and distinctive landscape of these neighborhoods is gorgeously captured by Mati Maldre in hundreds of photographic plates, maps, and illustrations, supplemented by essays by Timothy Barton, Harold Wolff, Robert Wagner, and Paul Sprague.

Many of Chicago's most important designers are represented in this community, including Frank Lloyd Wright, George Washington Maher, Daniel H. Burnham, Robert E. Seyfarth, Dwight H. Perkins, Robert S. Smith, and Walter Burley Griffin. This community also called on noteworthy local architects, including Harry Hale Waterman, Rudolph P. Boehm, and John Todd Hetherington and his son Murray. The book also documents nationally and locally designated historic districts such as the Ridge Historic District, Longwood Drive, the Walter Burley Griffin Place District, and the Beverly/Morgan Park Railroad Station District, as well as individual designated historic houses.

Mati Maldre is a retired professor of art/photography at Chicago State University. He taught there and at the Beverly Arts Center for thirty-five years. He earned a BA in design from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MS in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology. His photographs have been widely published, placed in major collections, and exhibited in the US and abroad. Maldre has photographed for the US Department the Interior's Historic American Buildings Survey, the Illinois Historic American Buildings Survey, and Chicago's Landmark Commission. Maldre is the coauthor and photographer for Walter Burley Griffin in America and The Chicago Bungalow. He also provided 113 photographs for The Griffins in Australia and India and the Beverly Hills/Morgan Park chapter of the AIA Guide to Chicago. Maldre has received numerous commissions, awards, and honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, two Graham Foundation Individual Grants, a Graham Foundation Organization Grant for Walter Burley Griffin in America, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Currently he is the chair of the RHS/BAPA, HBC and since 1999 is on the RHS Board of Directors. He is also on the board of directors of the Pike House Foundation, planning the future home of the Pike House Community Cultural Center in North Beverly, and he is on the board of directors of the Walter Burley Griffin Society of America. For more information: www.MatiMaldrePhotography.com.