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LOUIS SULLIVAN
➢Louis Henry Sullivan was born on September 3, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts, Uninted
States.He died on April 14, 1924 (age 67 years) at Chicago, lllinois, United States.
➢Andrienne List, Patrick Sullivan are his parents and his spouse was Mary Azona
Hattabaugh.
➢He was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father
of modernism".
HIS CHILDHOOD & EARLY LIFE
➢Sullivan attended public schools in the Boston area and spent summers on his grandparents’
farm in nearby South Reading.
➢When his parents moved to Chicago in 1869, Sullivan stayed behind with his grandparents
and later with neighbours, commuting to school in Boston.
➢His parents immigrated to the United States in the late 1840s .
➢He developed a strong connection with nature while spending time on his grandparents’
farm.
➢ 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 study, he moved to Philadelphia and took a job with architect Frank Furness.
FATHER OF SKYSCRAPERS
➢ Sullivanwas a Chicago-based architect who designed many other
notable buildings, including the Wainwright Building, the Guaranty
Building, and the Carson Pirie Scott Building.
➢ Through his exploration of organic ornamentation and steel-frame
construction, Sullivan became a vocal advocate for the
development of uniquely American architectural forms.
➢ He used natural ornament as a metaphor for a democratic
society.
Carson Pirie Scott Building
THE UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL STYLES OF LOUIS SULLIVAN
➢Louis Sullivan was a pioneer in designing the tall, densely-built
downtown areas in the magnificent skylines of New York and Chicago.
➢He created architecture with an exquisite visual reality in which the
design form followed the demands of the functionality.
➢Louis Sullivan endeavoured to define an architectural style unique to
America. He disrupted the imitation of the architecture styles like
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, or Neoclassicism.
According to him, the identity of any building resided in ornaments,
yet Sullivan emphasized on the structure.
Guaranty Building
➢ Louis Sullivan's architecture style is known
for its sleek form, organic ornamentation,
and focus on a building's purpose.
➢ His work influenced the Chicago School and
Prairie School of architecture, and his
principles continue to guide architects
today.
➢ Sullivan had an impact on architecture that
extends well beyond his work in Chicago.
The Bayard-Condict Building The Wainwright Building
LOUIS SULLIVAN MOST FAMOUS WORK
Auditorium Building by Louis Sullivan
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Type: Mixed-Use Building
Year:1889
THE AUDITORIUM BUILDING
➢ The Auditorium Building reflects strongly on the phrase,
‘When business and the arts collide, beautiful architecture
can emerge.’
➢ The Auditorium, designed along the lines of the Art Nouveau
movement by Adler and Sullivan, sets an example of how
civic amenities and art can be combined in a simple yet
outstanding style.
➢ Like all of Sullivan’s buildings, this, too, is adorned with
organic ornamentation. In this project, Sullivan emphasized
both massing and the rhythm of repetitive window patterns
by using load-bearing stone walls of various textures and
colors.
CARSON,PIRIE,SCOTT AND COMPANY BUILDING
➢The building’s signature features are marked by
Sullivan’s organic ornament, whose design was inspired by plants.
➢The bottom floors are clad in dark green cast iron, softened by
elaborate foliated patterns.
➢ The building is remarkable for its steel-framed structure, which
allowed a dramatic increase in window area created by bay-wide
windows, which in turn allowed for the greatest amount of daylight
into the building interiors. The design was the first use of what
became known as the Chicago window.
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Type: Commercial Building
Year:1899
ACHIEVEMENT
➢Sullivan had an impact on architecture that extends well beyond his work in Chicago.
➢ From the globally recognized phrase “form ever follows function” to the mentorship
of a young Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan's influence set in motion some of the most
important ideas in modern architecture.
