tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post8148965087899518363..comments2024-03-26T09:42:38.709-05:00Comments on ArchitectureChicago PLUS: A Kinder Future for Jenney's New York Life?Lynn Beckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759748613223711212noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-58484703692502421722013-12-19T20:42:45.864-06:002013-12-19T20:42:45.864-06:00Please don't forget that the architects of the...Please don't forget that the architects of the New York Life Building - and of the YMCA Association Building shown in the background, currently known as 19 South LaSalle - were Jenney and Mundie. Everyone seems to remember William LeBaron Jenney, but few seem to know of William Bryce Mundie who became a partner and heir apparent to Jenney in 1891. Mundie's contribution was to organize the practice so that it could accomplish skyscraper commissions - a modern model that revolutionized architectural practice at the time and is still practiced today. Many commissions of the Jenney & Mundie practice and its successor, Mundie and Jensen, still get credited solely to Jenney, despite buildings like the Union League Clubhouse (1926)being started long after jenney's death. The New York Life Building may contain one of the most stylish office building lobbies for its time. Snowed under in Edmontonnoreply@blogger.com