LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN : ARCHITECT

"FATHER OF SKYSCRAPERS"
"AMERICAN ARCHITECT"

"FATHER OF ARCHITECTURE"
"FATHER OF MODERNISM"
"MENTOR TO FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT"

" HE IS THE 2ND TO RECEIVE 'AIA GOLD MEDAL' "

"RECOGNIZED AS TRINITY OF ARCHITECTURE"

 ARCHITECT - LOUIS SULLIVAN

"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION'

In 1896, Louis Sullivan wrote:

NAME - SHOURYA
It is the pervading law of all things organic
SUBJECT-THEORY OF DESIGN
and inorganic, of all things physical and
4TH SEM /2ND YEAR
metaphysical, of all things human, and all
things super-human, of all true SUBMITTED TO - AR.LALU
manifestations of the head, of the heart, of YADAV / AR. ABHINAV
the soul, that the life is recognizable in its CHTURVEDI
expression, that form ever follows function. NSAP
About
Sullivan was born to a Swiss-born mother, née Andrienne List
(who had emigrated to Boston from Geneva with her parents
and two siblings, Jenny, b. 1836, and Jules, b. 1841) and an Irish-
born father, Patrick Sullivan. Both had immigrated to the
United States in the late 1840s.[6] He learned that he could both
graduate from high school a year early and bypass the first two
years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by passing a
series of examinations. Entering MIT at the age of sixteen,
Sullivan studied architecture there briefly. After one year of Louis Henry Sullivan
study, he moved to Philadelphia and took a job with architect Born - September 3, 1856
Frank Furness. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died - April 14, 1924 (aged 67)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation - Architect
 Sullivan...Sullivan...Sullivan.. Everwhere Sullivan...!!!!
Around 1880's
Adler and Sullivan initially achieved fame as theater architects.
While most of their theaters were in Chicago, their fame won
commissions as far west as Pueblo, Colorado, and Seattle,
Washington (unbuilt). The culminating project of this phase of
the firm's history was the 1889 Auditorium Building (1886–90,
opened in stages) in Chicago, an extraordinary mixed-use
building that included not only a 4,200-seat theater, but also a
hotel and an office building with a 17-story tower and
commercial storefronts at the ground level of the building,
fronting Congress and Wabash Avenues. After 1889 the firm
became known for their office buildings, particularly the 1891
Wainwright Building in St. Louis and the Schiller (later
Garrick) Building and theater (1890) in Chicago.
 Later Carrer
In 1890 Sullivan was one of the ten U.S. architects, five from the east and five from the west,
chosen to build a major structure for the "White City", the World's Columbian Exposition, held in
Chicago in 1893. Sullivan's massive Transportation Building and huge arched "Golden Door"
stood out as the only building not of the current Beaux-Arts style, and with the only multicolored
facade in the entire White City. Sullivan and fair director Daniel Burnham were vocal about their
displeasure with each other. Sullivan later claimed (1922) that the fair set the course of American
architecture back "for half a century from its date, if not longer."[10] His was the only building to
receive extensive recognition outside America, receiving three medals from the French-based
Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs the following year.
Like all American architects, Adler and Sullivan suffered a precipitous decline in their practice
with the onset of the Panic of 1893. According to Charles Bebb, who was working in the office at
that time, Adler borrowed money to try to keep employees on the payroll.[11] By 1894, however,
in the face of continuing financial distress with no relief in sight, Adler and Sullivan dissolved
their partnership. The Guaranty Building was considered the last major project of the firm.
Legacy

Sullivan's legacy is contradictory. Some consider him the first

modernist.[12] His forward-looking designs clearly
anticipate some issues and solutions of Modernism; however,
his embrace of ornament makes his contribution distinct
from the Modern Movement that coalesced in the 1920s and
became known as the "International Style". Sullivan's built
work expresses the appeal of his incredible designs: the
vertical bands on the Wainwright Building, the burst of
welcoming Art Nouveau ironwork on the corner entrance of
the Carson Pirie Scott store, the (lost) terra cotta griffins and
porthole windows on the Union Trust building, and the white
angels of the Bayard Building, Sullivan's only work in New
York City.
Buildings 1887–1895 by Adler & Sullivan:

Martin Ryerson Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago (1887)

Auditorium Building, Chicago (1889)
Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago (1890)
Wainwright Building, St. Louis (1890)

Wainwright Tomb, St. Louis

Charlotte Dickson Wainwright Tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis (1892), listed on the
National Register of Historic Places (shown at right),[28][29][30] is considered a major
American architectural triumph,[31] a model for ecclesiastical architecture,[32] a
"masterpiece",[33] and has been called "the Taj Mahal of St. Louis." The family name appears
nowhere on the tomb.[34]
Union Trust Building (now 705 Olive), St. Louis (1893; street-level ornament heavily altered in
1924)
Guaranty Building (formerly Prudential Building), Buffalo (1894)
Buildings 1887–1922 by Louis Sullivan: (256 total commissions and projects :

Springer Block (later Bay State Building and Burnham Building) and Kranz Buildings, Chicago (1885–1887)
Selz, Schwab & Company Factory, Chicago (1886–1887)
Hebrew Manual Training School, Chicago (1889–1890)
James H. Walker Warehouse & Company Store, Chicago (1886–1889)
Warehouse for E. W. Blatchford, Chicago (1889)
James Charnley House (also known as the Charnley–Persky House Museum Foundation and the National
Headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians), Chicago (1891–1892)
Albert Sullivan Residence, Chicago (1891–1892)
McVicker's Theater, second remodeling, Chicago (1890–1891)
Bayard Building, (now Bayard-Condict Building), 65–69 Bleecker Street, New York City (1898). Sullivan's only
building in New York, with a glazed terra cotta curtain wall expressing the steel structure behind it.
Commercial Loft of Gage Brothers & Company, Chicago (1898–1900)
Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral and Rectory, Chicago (1900–1903)
Carson Pirie Scott store, (originally known as the Schlesinger & Mayer Store, now known as "Sullivan Center")
Chicago (1899–1904)
Virginia Hall of Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee (1901)[35]
Van Allen Building, Clinton, Iowa (1914)
St. Paul United Methodist Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1910)
Krause Music Store, Chicago (final commission 1922; front façade only)
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