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    Louis Sullivan

    American architect

    For other people named Louis Sullivan, see Louis Sullivan (disambiguation).

    Louis Henry Sullivan

    c. 1895

    BornSeptember 3, 1856

    Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

    DiedApril 14, 1924(1924-04-14) (aged 67)

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

    OccupationArchitect

    Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924)[1] was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers"[2] and "father of modernism".[3] He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Wright and Henry Hobson Richardson, Sullivan is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture."[4] The phrase "form follows function" is attributed to him, although the idea was theorised by Viollet le Duc and others, that is, structure and function in ar

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    Louis Henry Sullivan was born in Boston. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year. After this, he worked as a draughtsman for architects Furness and Hewitt in Philadelphia and for William Le Baron Jenney in Chicago. In July 1874 Sullivan concluded his training at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; he returned to Chicago a year later

    In 1879, he joined the office of Dankmar Adler (1844-1900), who had emigrated from Germany in 1854 and was established as an architect in Chicago by 1869. In 1883 Sullivan became a full partner. Sullivan was the design partner, while Dankmar Adler was the engineer.

    Their first major building, and no doubt the most spectacular in Chicago up to that time, was the Auditorium (1886-90), which was strongly influenced by Henry Hobson Richardson. The auditorium itself is capable of seating more than 4,000. Sullivan's interior decoration is exceedingly interesting, of a feathery vegetable character, derived perhaps par

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    Louis Sullivan

    Louis Henry Sullivan (1856–1924) was born in Boston and came to Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 to join in the rebuilding effort. Six months later, Sullivan left for Paris to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts, which was the leading school of architecture in the world.

    In 1879, Sullivan joined the respected engineer Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), who had been practicing in Chicago since 1866. For fourteen years this relationship produced buildings distinguished bygd both their design and engineering innovations. Sullivan and Adler's work contributed to the development of the uniquely American building type, the skyscraper, and their partnership produced such remarkable structures as the Auditorium Building (1886–1889) in Chicago, the Wainwright Building (1890–1891) in St. Louis, the Chicago lager Exchange (1893–1894, demolished), and the Guaranty Building (1894-1895) in Buffalo, New York. Thei