Publications Featuring the Work of Kuklinski+Rappe Architects

The New Family Home: Creating the Perfect Home for Today and Tomorrow 

We are thrilled to have our own home included in this new Taunton Press book.  The subject is the changing nature of residential design at the end of the 20th century.  The book surveys unique approaches to housing across the country-the Kuklinski+Rappe House  is the only house featured from the Chicago area!

History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago, Revised Edition

The original edition of this comprehensive history of Chicago buildings was written in 1948 by structural engineer Frank Randall.  It includes information, both historical and pragmatic, about virtually every structure in the central business district, as well as biographies, maps and an extensive indexing system.  The revised edition was written by Frank Randall's son Jack Randall, an architect and influential preservationist.  It will add information regarding virtually all the buildings built and demolished since 1948.  It will also include additional research, biographies and maps, several of which were contributed by Scott Rappe.

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In Memoriam, Jack Randall

We were very saddened to learn of the passing of our good friend Jack Randall in January, 1999. Jack was a unique individual, with a great love for architecture.  He called himself a 'pamphleteer' after the early American patriots who campaigned for freedom.  He wrote and published dozens of works himself, including 'Treasures of American Architecture' and 'Skyscrapers, the first 100 years'.   As a young man, Jack was a close friend of the late architectural photographer, Richard Nickel.  He fought side-by-side with Nickel in the effort to save many of Louis Sullivan's buildings including the Stock Exchange, where Nickel was later killed.   After that tragedy, Jack succeeded in saving Sullivan's Wainwright Building in St. Louis and Guaranty Building in Buffalo.  While serving as university architect for Southern Illinois University, Jack was instrumental in establishing a permanent home there for Nickel's enormous collection of ornament salvaged from Sullivan's building during demolition.  

While at Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, Scott Rappe  had the good fortune of meeting Jack in the course of his research for 'A History of Chicago Buildings'.  Thereafter, through correspondence, conversations and occasional visits, a special friendship developed.  We eagerly await publication of his last book, ten years in the making, and only wish he could be here to see it finished.