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Explores the idea that Louis Sullivan's ornament was central to his contribution as architect and city shaper. Early in Sullivan's career in the 1890s, when he emerged as a leading skyscraper architect of Chicago, his ornament gave scale and quality to his work. After 1900, as his career declined, it served to identify his buildings and the humane conception they encapsulated in an increasingly hostile cityscape. The brilliant pencil execution of ornament in his old age became a surrogate for the great architectural projects realized earlier. Stunning new color photographs illuminate this extended essay on how Sullivan's ornament shaped the city.
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David Van Zanten lives in Evanston, Illinois. Cervin Robinson lives in New York City.
Explores the idea that Louis Sullivan's ornament was central to his contribution as architect and city shaper. Early in Sullivan's career in the 1890s, when he emerged as a leading skyscraper architect of Chicago, his ornament gave scale and quality to his work. After 1900, as his career declined, it served to identify his buildings and the humane conception they encapsulated in an increasingly hostile cityscape. The brilliant pencil execution of ornament in his old age became a surrogate for the great architectural projects realized earlier. Stunning new color photographs illuminate this extended essay on how Sullivan's ornament shaped the city.
About the Author
David Van Zanten lives in Evanston, Illinois. Cervin Robinson lives in New York City.
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LOUIS SULLIVAN made a dramatic appearance on the Chicago architectural stage at the beginning of the 1880s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theater interiors, pure design, last plate, architectural ornament, spatial geometry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago Architectural Club, Auditorium Building, New York, Schiller Building, Dwight Perkins, Bradley House, Saint Louis, Chicago School of Architecture, Oak Park Studio, Borden Block, Transportation Building, Birch Burdette Long, Board of Trade, Cedar Rapids, European Capital, Louis Sullivan, Prairie Style, Wainwright Building, Andrew Rebori, Astor Street, Brothers Store, Emil Lorch, Ernest Flagg, Hugh Garden New!
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LOUIS SULLIVAN made a dramatic appearance on the Chicago architectural stage at the beginning of the 1880s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theater interiors, pure design, last plate, architectural ornament, spatial geometry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago Architectural Club, Auditorium Building, New York, Schiller Building, Dwight Perkins, Bradley House, Saint Louis, Chicago School of Architecture, Oak Park Studio, Borden Block, Transportation Building, Birch Burdette Long, Board of Trade, Cedar Rapids, European Capital, Louis Sullivan, Prairie Style, Wainwright Building, Andrew Rebori, Astor Street, Brothers Store, Emil Lorch, Ernest Flagg, Hugh Garden New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings (Documents of Modern Art.) by Louis Sullivan on 6 pages
- Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture: The Present Against the Past by David S. Andrew on page 113, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (Spanish Edition) by H. Allen Brooks in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- American Architecture and Other Writings, Vol. 1 by Montgomery Schuyler on page 61, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A System of Architectural Ornament by Louis H. Sullivan on page 137, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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