I. W. Colburn: Emotion in Modern Architecture "chronicles the career of one of Chicago s most influential mid-century modernists. Colburn s houses, institutional buildings, and religious structures feature a highly refined blend of structural expression and deeply embedded elements of traditional architecture. Colburn was an independent architect whose sculptural buildings were controversial in his time, but whose mastery of proportion, materials, and space have gained wide recognition 50 years later.

Colburn s architecture was extremely influential to architects in the mid-twentieth...