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May 21, 2024 · After all, Frank Lloyd Wright designed several handsome chapels, and Wright’s mentor Louis Sullivan did as well; the architect even shows up in Orthodox iconography (see below). Sullivan described the challenge of building the skyscraper as “one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever ...
6 days ago · However, new design approaches, specifically suited to the the skyscraper, were developed by architects such as Louis Sullivan and McKim, Mead, and White. As a result, skyscrapers came to be...
May 22, 2024 · Richard Nickel (1928-1972) was a Polish-American architectural photographer and preservationist. Nickel first encountered the work of Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) as a student, when photographing the architect’s buildings for a project at the IIT Institute of Design.
1 day ago · – Louis Sullivan Well-designed common areas have practical functions that radiate throughout a school, but buildings have psychological functions, too. In schools, students of all ages need to “hang out” in spaces with just the right atmosphere for social and emotional development.
1 day ago · Louis Sullivan popularized the axiom Form follows function to emphasize the importance of utilitarian simplicity in modern architecture. Art Deco architects such as Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage often made a compromise between the two, combining modernist forms and stylized decoration.
3 days ago · The resulting tower was a conservative, Gothic design and controversy about the decision broke out almost immediately: Louis Sullivan and many others criticized Howells and Hood's design as being derivative of the Woolworth Tower.
May 28, 2024 · Daniel Burnham (born September 4, 1846, Henderson, New York, U.S.—died June 1, 1912, Heidelberg, Germany) was an American architect and urban planner whose impact on the American city was substantial.
