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Jan 19, 2018 · This film tells the story of the unstoppable rise of the skyscrapers. Starting in 1869, in New York and Chicago, elevators, steel, and electricity combined to create a frenzy of tall and taller buildings. Tall traces the experiments of the early skyscraper architects, especially Louis Sullivan, the Chicago architect (and mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright) who pioneered a new skyscraper form. His ...
Jan 17, 2018 · Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer. Documentary. Not Rated. 1h 19m. By A.O. Scott. Jan. 17, 2018. “Tall” is a compact history of the American skyscraper, an unassuming (though hardly unambitious ...
Mar 17, 2006 · Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan: Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer. With Dylan Baker. The development of the American skyscraper, starting in the late 19th century, in Chicago and then New York, centers on the conflict between architects Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan.
Yes, the skyscraper might have been warmer, friendlier, along the lines that Sullivan and his protege Frank Lloyd Wright imagined. But it's indisputable that what we wound up with inspires awe on ...
Jan 14, 2005 · Manfred Kirchheimer’s 2006 video documentary tells the story of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright’s “dear master” and arguably Chicago’s greatest architect. Sullivan didn’t invent the ...
Louis Henry Sullivan ( 3. rujna 1856. – 14. travnja 1924.) je bio istaknuti američki arhitekt, dizajner interijera, teoretičar i kritičar koji je djelovao na prijelazu iz 19. u 20. stoljeće.
Issue. 1. If a single building type can—and should—be identified with twentieth-century American architecture, it is the skyscraper. Tall buildings were the stuff of the stories told by the legions of European immigrants whose first glimpse of America was the southern tip of Manhattan Island, bristling with its towers.
