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4 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...
3 days ago · The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, completed in 1885, is often considered the first skyscraper. It featured a new wave of construction innovation -- a steel frame, allowing for unprecedented height and stability. Architects like Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham were pioneers in this new vertical architecture.
3 days ago · I’ve suggested that architect Louis Sullivan’s phrase "form follows function"--that style should reflect purpose--might be more wisely replaced by "form follows finance," the title of a book by Carol Willis, also the founder of the Skyscraper Museum. After all, the lack of finance may mean the absence of form, as in delayed buildings.
3 days ago · The first steel-framed "skyscraper", The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, was ten stories high. It was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1883, and was briefly the tallest building in the world. Louis Sullivan built another monumental new structure, the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, in the heart
2 days ago · We see two locomotives pulling cars on the Illinois Central tracks, some of which would proceed to the Louis Sullivan-designed passenger depo on what is now Loyola Avenue at Howard; both the steam locomotives as well as the depo were also in their last days, the latter demolished shortly after the Moses-envisioned Union Passenger Terminal ...
3 days ago · Louis Sullivan's polychrome proto-Modern Transportation Building was an outstanding exception to the prevailing style, as he tried to develop an organic American form. Years later, in 1922, he wrote that the classical style of the White City had set back modern American architecture by forty years.
3 days ago · Mumford paid Walker a rare compliment with the following comparison: “Louis Sullivan used ornament in much the same fashion on his early skyscrapers, but not always so successfully.”
