The preservation community is coming around to considering the 1970s and 1980s to be historic, ushering in a new wave of buildings up for landmark consideration.
In terms of modern structures worthy of preservation, the Netsch House is a formidable standard bearer.
Prominent architect Walter Netsch — whose work includes the stunning Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy and much of the University of Illinois Chicago campus — designed the house for himself and wife Dawn Clark Netsch, a glass-ceiling-shattering attorney and politician. It remained the couple's home for the next three decades, with Clark Netsch staying in the house after her husband's death in 2008, until she died in 2013.
The streamlined, box-like exterior opens to an interior that's so extraordinary that the commission made the unusual move of including it in the landmark designation. There are scarcely a dozen instances in Chicago in which the interior's specific features are landmarked along with the exterior, said Matt Crawford, the architectural historian who presented the report on the Netsch House.
"The drama is really in the interior," Crawford said, describing it as a 30-foot-tall cube from which the home's living spaces spiral out in a series of platforms. The complex geometry is a hallmark of a style pioneered by Netsch, known as field theory. The house is a bold and highly identifiable example of the style, a style that wasn't universally appreciated or widely adopted., Chicago architecture critic Blair Kamin wrote that at least one architecture buff feared for the future of field-theory buildings following Netsch's death, saying,"their loss would be a blow to the world's architectural variety.
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