LOUIS SULLIVAN

(1856-1924)
LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN
o born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 3, 1856
o decided to be an architect at the age of 11
o on 1872, he applied to the Building and Architetecture
program at MIT
o on 1874, he entered Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
o after 6 years, he worked for Dankman Alder
o on 1882, Sullivan and Adler became partners
o left college on June 1873 and took a job with Frank
Furness
o found a position with Arch. William Le Baron Jenney
in Chicago
o Sullivan and Adler designed approximately 180
buildings
oHe died on April 14, 1924, of kidney disease and
inflammation of the cardiac muscles
o returned to Chicago in June 1875 as a draftsman
PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPT
It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human
and things superhuman that
form ever follows function,
This is the law


masonry walls
intertwining wines and leaves
geometric shapes
organic symbolisms
WORKS
National Farmers Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1908)
WORKS
Bradley House, Madison, United States (1909)
WORKS
Peoples Federal Savings & Loan, Sidney, Ohio (1918)
WORKS
Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri (1891)
WORKS
Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York (1894)
WORKS
Auditorium Building, Chicago, United States (1889)
WORKS
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, Chicago, Illinois (1899)
WORKS
Bayard Building, New York City (1899)
WORKS
Krause Music Store, Chicago, Illinois (1922)
Thats all.
Thank
you!