Louis Sullivan

Did you know that our cities today wouldn't be as big today without steel? Louis Sullivan is the person that introduced steel. Louis knew that steel was more efficient on making buildings. Did you know that our cities today wouldn't be as big today without steel? Louis Sullivan love for architure sent him on a long trip My many well know architects. Louis Sullivan started by working in Philadelphia then Chicago. In Chicago Louis worked with William Lebaron Jenney then DAnker Adler. Louis Sullivan worked with DAnker Adler for 15 years. Louis Sullivan was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright. With the introduction of steel many cities got bigger and skyscrapers were born. Louis Sullivan and LeBaron Jenny made the first skyscrapers in America.…

Thought Louis H. Sullivan is the author of the article “Thought,” he notes that he wants people to think without the use of words. Sullivan conveys that words and the spoken language are a brief moment of thought that is declared out for the world to hear, but to be neglected. In his article, Sullivan encourages people to instead of using words, to try and use our imagination and creativity as a form of thinking in the mind. The use of imagination and creativity is a unique technique, and this…

Louis H. Sullivan breathed life into American architecture in the modern era just before the 20th century. Regarded as the spiritual father of the skyscraper he helped define the age though this framework by creating a purely American style form an American philosophy. According to Sullivan one must know the artist to understand his art, and due to this much of this paper is dedicated to his world view. Despite the fact that transcendentalists believe being with nature presents the greatest…

While architect Louis Sullivan was considered the founder of “modern high rise American architecture” like skyscrapers (Karwatka), William Jenney was the first architect to design and build a skyscraper in the United States, which was built in 1884. Although Jenney’s skyscraper gained popularity, Sullivan’s skyscrapers gained more recognition due to the fact that his buildings were designed along his belief of how the “design of a building should acknowledge the structural shape underneath”…

the most influential architect today. Wright’s influence started at a young age. Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June eighth, 1867 and died on April ninth in 1959 (Biography.com). Wright at nineteen years old and a college dropout moved to Chicago to be an architect. While living in Chicago, young Wright unexpectedly won immediate admission to the inner circles of the architecture world. (Fishman). Wright designed houses for people all over the country, but did a lot of work in Oak Park. While…

Born 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the first architects who found a new style based on interpretation of planes and abreast masses. He was influenced by many aspects of his life, firstly, when Wright’s parents split up he had an obsession with showing an ideal family living space. His early influences came mainly from working at his uncle’s farm and the “froebel blocks” (Curtis since 1900, page 75) his mother brought him, which he used to create various geometric shapes and patterns.…

In his essay “Thought,” Louis H. Sullivan greatly stresses the importance of thinking critically and creatively, and presents the argument that one must think not in words but rather in images, rhythm, and other wordless forms of communication. Sullivan resorts heavily on comparisons and analogies and metaphors to convey the impractical usage of words. “But in passing I may say that real thinking is better done without words than with them, and creative thinking must be done without words,”…

Modernism, a revolution movement started in the 20th century, is a style when “form follows function”, as quoted from Louis Sullivan, the famous Frank Llyod Wright’s mentor. Wright was one of the pioneers of Modern Architecture and his masterpiece, the Fallingwater, was perhaps his best interpretation of Modernism. Located in rural Southwestern of Pennsylvania, the Fallingwater is so popular that it is often mentioned in many architecture books regarding its application to the site. B.B.…

In 1887, Wright got a job with the influential architect Louis Sullivan (“Architecture, Interior Design”). When he first started his career, Wright was a part of Sullivan’s Prairie School group, which aimed to create more modern buildings (“Frank Lloyd Wright Talks”). However, he quickly left the group in order to start his own architecture practice and discover his own style (“Frank Lloyd Wright”). His style was described as “quintessentially American” (Lubow). During the 1920s, Wright’s most…

with the environment they sat in, almost as if they were one together. Years went on, and I started to study architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright. Eventually, I was introduced to this word, “organic architecture.” So what really is “organic architecture” and what makes architecture “organic?” Now, where exactly does this word “organic architecture” even come from? Well, it actually dates back as early as the 19th century. As early as 1908, a famous architect by the name of Frank Lloyd Wright…