Louis Sullivan was an American Architect that has ended up through popular culture to be known as the father of skyscrapers or the father of modernism and has been credited for the development of how many of our cities look today.He was an architectural prodigy at a young age, graduating high school and commencing studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 16 The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 gave Sullivan and many other architects the opportunities to rebuild the City using
The Krause Music Store, the last commission by Louis Sullivan. Designed in 1922. If you’re in Chicago, don’t miss Louis Sullivan’s Idea at the Chicago Cultural Center. If a book is more your style, check out Sullivan’s City.
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A comprehensive book catalogs the oeuvre of Chicago architects Danker Adler and Louis Sullivan through the archives of a photographer known for his efforts to preserve their late-19th- and early-20th-century projects.
He invented the skyscraper and laid the foundations for the Modern Movement. A book pays tribute to Louis Sullivan, who never received the recognition he deserved during his lifetime
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Carved ornamental wooden capital in the Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Adler & Sullivan, architects.
The year is 1895. Buffalo is booming. Hascal Taylor, a Buffalo businessman commissions the Chicago based architectural firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan to build the “largest and best office building in the city”. They design a skyscraper with a steel framed construction, which is all new in 1895. They plan to wrap […]
As any good exhibit would do, it takes one through the different phases of the architects growth, how his works became increasingly more intricate and fluid.. and leaves you with wanting to see more and with a massive regret over demolished buildings.. and Yes makes a very strong case for preservation of what's beautiful.. The exhibit traces the growth of Sullivan's works, since the time of his arrival in Chicago.. The marker reads.... One day before Thanksgiving in 1873, 17 year-old Louis Sullivan saw the city of Chicago, for the very first time. Standing on the platform of a railroad station, he raised his hand, stomped his foot and said to himself, "This is the place for me". To an aspiring architect, Chicago was indeed the place to be. The Gem of Prairie, largely destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire two years earlier, was being rebuilt at lightning speed. With a short history and no defined tardition, Chicago was a perfect home to learn and to try new ideas... Soon after arriving in Chicago, Sullivan acquired a book describing Chicago and surrounding suburban communities. The text and attached map have annotations reflecting his travels in the area.. The fragments of some of his works in the early years .. The above fragments are from Sullivan's early works, between 1870s-1880s.. Troescher Building [1884, demolished] Architectural fragment.. Marker for the above image.. Louis Sullivan found architectural terra cotta to be a versatile material that could play a significant role in giving life to a building. Starting as pliable clay and then fired into string durable blocks, Sullivan took advantage of it's moldability, such as in this rhythmic march of spirals that once went between the windows of a Chicago mercantile building... Troescher Bldg. [1884] 19 S Wacker Drive, Chicago.. Now demolished.. Rothschild Building [1881, demolished] Architectural fragment.. The marker reads.. To the pedestrian, this row of morphing organic forms at the top of Rothschild store appeared in perfect scale and harmony with the finer details of the first floor, demonstrating Sullivan's mastery of proportion and detail at the early stage of his career. E Rothschild & Brothers Store [1881].. 212 W Monroe Street, Chicago .. Now demolished.. Auditorium Building [1889].. Adler and Sullivan firms first masterpiece.. In 1886, Ferdinand Peck hired Adler and Sullivan for his dream opera house, to highlight Chicago's potential as a place of art and culture. Nearly four years in construction, the combined theater, hotel and office buildings cast Adler and Sullivan into a national limelight. Adler and Sullivan proudly moved the offices to just below the top of the tower, with accommodation for 25 employees, including the young Frank Llyod Wright. Transportation Building, at the World's Fair, 1893.. Polychromed in 44 hues, Transportation Building richly stood out in otherwise bleached city.. Long after the fair ended, Sullivan had said.. The damage wrought by the World's Fair, will last for half a century from it's date, if not longer. It has penetrated deep into the constitution of American mind, effecting their lesions, significant of dementia.. Albert W. Sullivan House [1892] None of the original ornamentation of the Transportation Buiklding is known to survive, but Sullivan used some of the moulds to provide interior details for a home he and his brother built for their mother during the same period. Originally created as the corner edging at the base of the Transportation Building, the example was used in the second floor bedroom, and salvaged when the house was demolished in 1970.
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Image 2 of 8 from gallery of Spotlight: Louis Sullivan. The Carson Pirie Scott Building in Chicago, Illinois. Image © Flickr user cjsmithphotography licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
This bank in West Lafayette, IN is the left handed, red headed, bucktoothed, orphaned stepchild of Louis Sullivan's eight small Midwestern banks. It is small and is built on an odd shaped, triangular lot. Plus, the dolts at Chase took out the front door and replaced it with an ATM.
Antique American Architectural Artifacts
Louis Sullivan was an American Architect that has ended up through popular culture to be known as the father of skyscrapers or the father of modernism and has been credited for the development of how many of our cities look today.He was an architectural prodigy at a young age, graduating high school and commencing studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 16 The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 gave Sullivan and many other architects the opportunities to rebuild the City using
Louis Sullivan, archt., 1892, in Bellefontaine Cemetery
Louis Henry Sullivan was an influential American architect. He was known as Chicago’s “Father of the skyscrapers”and "Father of modernism".His attention to detail, use of ornamentation on emerging tall building of the late 19th century made him one of the most influential architects of the modernist period. The design principles he followed led to the revolutionary phrase ‘Form follows Function.’ However, Sullivan always credited the inspiration of the phrase to an older Roman architect Vitruvius.
Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, architects (1889) 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
This is the old Schlesinger & Mayer Building designed by Louis Sullivan on State Street in 1899. It was the Carson, Pirie, and Scott department store until relatively recently. It was adaptively reused into an office building on the upper floors and a Target will be opening on the first two floors. It is on the National Register #70000231, and also a National Historic Landmark.
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Designed by Adler and Sullivan and is considered one of the world's first skyscrapers with a steel frame and curtainwall. It opened in 1891. This is now a State of Missouri Office Building. The Wainwright Building is on the National Register of Historic Places #68000054, and is also a National Historic Landmark.
This is now hidden due to the construction of the Art Institute of Chicago addition. I think we all know the history of this arch and the building it comes from. :( www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=102667
Image 11 of 15 from gallery of AD Classics: Wainwright Building / Adler & Sullivan. Photograph by University of Missouri
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The full south elevation of Louis Sullivan's National Farmers' Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota.
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