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    Louis Sullivan was an architect who created a new style of skyscraper construction emphasizing verticality rather than repeating historical patterns. He realized that the function of walls in tall buildings required a new form, allowing facades to rise high above the street rather than using short repeating sections. His Wainwright Building and Guaranty Building demonstrated this new vertical style, which is still seen in some buildings today.

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    Louis Sullivan was an architect who created a new style of skyscraper construction emphasizing verticality rather than repeating historical patterns. He realized that the function of walls in tall buildings required a new form, allowing facades to rise high above the street rather than using short repeating sections. His Wainwright Building and Guaranty Building demonstrated this new vertical style, which is still seen in some buildings today.

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    Louis Sullivan was an architect who created a new style of skyscraper construction emphasizing verticality rather than repeating historical patterns. He realized that the function of walls in tall buildings required a new form, allowing facades to rise high above the street rather than using short repeating sections. His Wainwright Building and Guaranty Building demonstrated this new vertical style, which is still seen in some buildings today.

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    Louis Sullivan

    Louis was an architect. He created


    a new form of construction.
    Sullivan was the first to realize that
    the new function of the walls
    required a new form. Instead of
    repeating a pattern known from
    earlier buildings, he emphasized
    the vertical and allowed facades to
    soar from street level to cornice.
    Louis Sullivan's most important
    skyscrapers outside of Chicago, the
    Wainwright Building in St. Louis (1890) and the
    Guaranty Building in Buffalo (1894), both express
    the new verticality. This style is still used in some
    buildings today.

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