Pulled from one of my Chicago Architecture Foundation tours (I'm a docent) and adapted for Project #8 in Toastmasters' Competent Communicator manual. This speech, by the way, was the last one... moving onto next TM level.

1. 130 YEARS OF ARCHITECTURE HISTORY
ADAMS & DEARBORN STREETS INTERSECTION

2. 1872 1895 1959-74 2003
BERGHOFF MARQUETTE FEDERAL CENTER CITADEL

3. AN EVOLUTION OF
ST YLE, DESIGN AND
ECONOMIES OF SCALE.

4. ➻ TWO BUILDINGS (1871 & 1872)
➻ POST-FIRE CONSTRUCTION
➻ UTILITARIAN—LACKED AMENITIES

5. ➻ COMMERCIAL STYLE
(fka“CHICAGO SCHOOL”)
➻ TRIPARTITE FACADE
➻ INTERNAL METAL SKELETAL FRAME
MARQUETTE BUILDING
HOLABIRD & ROCHE (1895)

6. ➻ MARQUETTE & JOLIET HISTORY
➻ HERMAN MCNEIL PANELS ABOVE ENTRANCE
MARQUETTE BUILDING
HOLABIRD & ROCHE (1895)

7. ➻ LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY MOSAICS
➻ HERMAN MCNEIL & EDWARD KEMMEYS SCULPTORS
MARQUETTE BUILDING
HOLABIRD & ROCHE (1895)

8. ➻ MID-CENTURY MODERN
➻ ”LESS IS MORE”
➻ “FLAMINGO”BY ALEXANDER CALDER
FEDERAL CENTER
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
(1959-1974)

9. FEDERAL CENTER
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
(1959-1974)
➻ VOLUME + SIMILARITY
➻ VOID OF ORNAMENTATION
➻ EVERYTHING DERIVED FROM GRID

10. FEDERAL CENTER
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
(1959-1974)
➻ “I”BEAM TO CAST SHADOWS
➻ ICONIC BLACK COATED STEEL
➻ BRONZE TINTED WINDOWS

11. ➻ POST-MODERN (CONTEMPORARY)
➻ “LESS IS A BORE!”
CITADEL CENTER
DESTEFANO & BOFILL (2003)

12. ➻ LUXURIOUS MATERIALS
➻ RECOGNIZED FOR ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY
CITADEL CENTER
DESTEFANO & BOFILL (2003)

13. “ARCHITECTURE SHOULD SPEAK
OF ITS TIME AND PLACE,
BUT YEARN FOR TIMELESSNESS.”
FRANK GEHRY