louis henry sullivan
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“Father of Modern Architecture”
Sabah Shafi
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Personal Data Legal Name: Louis Henry Sullivan
Birth date: September 3, 1856
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Ethnic Group: Irish and Swiss
Permanent Home Address: Chicago
Citizenship: US Citizen
Education: 1 year at MIT, 6 months at Ecole des Beaux-Arts
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Early Life Entered MIT in 1872, age 16
Dissatisfied about how strictly the school focused on classical architecture
Went to visit my parents in Chicago
Saw possibilities of rebuilding the city
Travelled to Paris to study at one of the greatest schools of architecture
After a year in Europe, came back to Chicago
Worked as a draftsman
Produced quick and skillful design
Worked for Dankmar Adler
1881, we became partners
I provided designs, Adler provided the clients and solved the engineering problems
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1880-1889 Philosophy: “Form Follows Function”
Architecture
Product design
Software engineering
Automobile design
Earlier work: designed the Rothschild Store and Ryerson Building
1880, started to propose buildings to reconstruct Chicago
Elegant and simple, focused on height and safety
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Rothschild Store
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Ryerson Building
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Auditorium Building One of my greatest works, designed with Adler
Combined theater, hotel, and office building
Three stages: a block with pitched roof and squat towers, a raised tower with a pyramidal cap, and a massive, unornamented block with a tower rising stories above the larger structure
Was the showplace in Chicago until the Great Depression
Roosevelt University moved into the building in 1947
Auditorium Theater Council was established to restore the theater
25 years after it was closed, the NYC Ballet performed
Audience was crazy about the architecture as well as the ballet
I became famous through the Auditorium’s rational structure and ornamentation
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Auditorium Building
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Lobby
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Stairs
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Theater
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First to design steel-framed skyscrapers
Created tall and structurally secure buildings
Invented unique American style of architecture
Steered away from Greek and Roman architectural designs to create unique American style
Borden Block-reflected this style
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Wainwright Building in St. Louis
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Guaranty Building in Buffalo
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End of partnership with Adler
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Carson Pirie Scott Building
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One of my last greatest designs
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Transportation Building famous for its massiveness and uniqueness
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Later career, designed banks for small cities in MN, IA, WI, and OH
Some banks still admired for their form
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Merchant’s National Bank
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National Farmers’ Bank
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