"One of the best-designed architecture books to appear in recent memory . . ., handsomely illustrated with a fuller selection of historical views of Sullivan's work than can be found in any other book now in print, and supplemented by a fine new set of color photographs of Sullivan's most important surviving buildings." —Martin Filler, New York Review of Books
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ABOUT 1880 THE TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Louis Sullivan joined the firm of Dankmar Adler as chief draftsman and designer; on May 1, 1883, he became Adler's partner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skeletal office, skeletal framing, rental brochure, naturalistic ornament, skeletal building, banking room, tall office building, wholesale store, new bank building, unidentified building, spandrel panels, paired windows, skeletal construction, vertical piers, corner piers, commercial style, heavy cornice, light court, public lobby Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architectural Record, Union Trust, Cedar Rapids, Cervin Robinson, Transportation Building, Fraternity Temple, Wainwright Building, Stock Exchange, Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, Marshall Field Wholesale Store, Chicago School, Columbian Exposition, Montgomery Schuyler, Schiller Building, Frank Furness, Guaranty Building, Kindergarten Chats, Michigan Avenue, American Buildings, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Bayard Building New!
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ABOUT 1880 THE TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Louis Sullivan joined the firm of Dankmar Adler as chief draftsman and designer; on May 1, 1883, he became Adler's partner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skeletal office, skeletal framing, rental brochure, naturalistic ornament, skeletal building, banking room, tall office building, wholesale store, new bank building, unidentified building, spandrel panels, paired windows, skeletal construction, vertical piers, corner piers, commercial style, heavy cornice, light court, public lobby Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architectural Record, Union Trust, Cedar Rapids, Cervin Robinson, Transportation Building, Fraternity Temple, Wainwright Building, Stock Exchange, Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, Marshall Field Wholesale Store, Chicago School, Columbian Exposition, Montgomery Schuyler, Schiller Building, Frank Furness, Guaranty Building, Kindergarten Chats, Michigan Avenue, American Buildings, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Bayard Building New!
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- The Autobiography of an Idea (Dover Architecture) by Louis H. Sullivan on 14 pages
- Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings (Documents of Modern Art.) by Louis Sullivan on 8 pages
- Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament by David Van Zanten on 7 pages
- Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers) by Hugh Morrison on 5 pages
- American Architecture and Other Writings, Vol. 1 by Montgomery Schuyler on 5 pages
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- Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture by Narcisco G. Menocal in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan by David Van Zanten in Back Matter
- Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915 by James F. O'Gorman in Back Matter
- Form follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago by Carol Willis in Back Matter
- The Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of Chicago's Gold Coast (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism) by Richard Longstreth in Back Matter
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