Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism...
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Louis Wade Sullivan (born November 3, 1933) is an active health policy leader, minority health advocate, author, physician, and educator. He served as...
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The Louis Sullivan Bungalow was a vacation home for noted architect Louis Sullivan on the Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. It was listed on the...
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Louis Graydon Sullivan (June 16, 1951 – March 2, 1991) was an American author and activist known for his work on behalf of trans men. He was perhaps the...
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Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) was an American Modernist architect. Louis Sullivan may also refer to: Louis Wade Sullivan (born 1933), American physician;...
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Adler & Sullivan was an architectural firm founded by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan in Chicago. Among its projects was the multi-purpose Auditorium...
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(Podcast). Wave Podcast Network. "Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture (2010)". The A.V. Club. "Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture"...
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Louis Robert Sullivan (1892–1925) was an American anthropologist. He was born in Houlton, Maine, on May 21, 1892. He studied at Bates College and Brown...
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State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois. Louis Sullivan designed it for the retail firm Schlesinger & Mayer in 1899 and later...
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Chicago, briefly with Joseph Lyman Silsbee, and then with Louis Sullivan at Adler & Sullivan. Wright opened his own successful Chicago practice in 1893...
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Another important figure in American Art Nouveau was the architect Louis Sullivan. Sullivan was a leading pioneer of American modern architecture. He was the...
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of buildings to be found in their proportions. In the 19th century, Louis Sullivan declared that "form follows function". "Function" began to replace the...
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Wainwright Building (category Louis Sullivan buildings)
fully expressed early skyscrapers. It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and built between 1890 and 1891. It was named for local brewer, building...
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and document the buildings of architect Louis Sullivan, and the work of the architecture firm of Adler & Sullivan. Richard Nickel was born in the Chicago...
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primarily relate to its intended function or purpose. The architect Louis Sullivan coined the maxim, which encapsulates Viollet-le-Duc's theories: "a rationally...
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Modern architecture (section Louis Kahn)
ornament." This book influenced a generation of architects, including Louis Sullivan, Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, and Antoni Gaudí. The Glasgow School...
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the Wainwright Building, a skyscraper designed in 1892 by architect Louis Sullivan. In 1900, the entire streetcar system was shut down by a several months-long...
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architect Richard Neutra. 1891 – Louis Sullivan completes his Wainwright Building in Saint Louis. 1890 – Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler build the Auditorium...
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Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan is a 2006 documentary film by Manfred Kirchheimer that attempts to tell the story of how Louis Sullivan designed skyscrapers...
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from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line. — Louis Sullivan's The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896) Some structural...
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civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed...
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scientific illustrator Lily Sullivan, Australian actress Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), American architect Margaret Frances Sullivan (1848–1903), Irish-American...
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in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one of "the recognized trinity...
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architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Auguste Perret, Louis Sullivan, and Le Corbusier, who considered Viollet-le-Duc as the father of modern...
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Shankland, and modern contractors, in particular George A. Fuller. Louis Sullivan discarded historical precedent and designed buildings that emphasized...
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employed or influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright or Louis Sullivan, though usually not including Sullivan himself. While the style originated in Chicago,...
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are is mostly found in the Midwestern United States. He worked with Louis Sullivan and later with William Gray Purcell as a partner in the firm Purcell...
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American musician Louis Sachar (born 1954), American author of children's books Louis Spohr (1784–1859), German composer Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), American...
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The Hotel Saint Louis is a hotel and historic building in St. Louis, Missouri. The building was designed by the firm Adler & Sullivan and was constructed...
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Auditorium Building (category Louis Sullivan buildings)
Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. Completed in 1889, the building is located at the...
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