Louis Sullivan

(noun)

(1856 – 1924) An American architect who has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism. " He is considered by many to be the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect, critic of the Chicago School, and a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Examples of Louis Sullivan in the following topics:

  • Modern Architecture: Form Follows Function

    • Modern architecture adhered to Louis Sullivan's famous precept, "Form follows function," which called for an absence of ornamentation beyond functional necessity.
    • The great 19th century architect of skyscrapers, Louis Sullivan, promoted an overriding precept to architectural design: "Form follows function".
    • Explain Louis Sullivan's adage, "Form follows function," and its influence on modern architecture

  • Changes in Technology

    • The notion that "Form follows function," a dictum originally expressed by Frank Lloyd Wright's early mentor Louis Sullivan, meaning that the result of design should derive directly from its purpose
    • A further development was that of the steel-framed skyscraper in Chicago, introduced around 1890 by William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan.
    • The work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner and the Vienna Secession in Austria, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new.

  • The Rise of the City

    • Louis, finished in 1891, exemplifies architect Louis Sullivan's ideas of form following function, which was a new principle in urban architecture of the period.

  • Chicago School of Architecture

    • Beman, and Louis Sullivan.
    • Frank Lloyd Wright started in the firm of Adler and Sullivan but created his own Prairie Style of architecture.

  • Tenements and Overcrowding

    • Louis Sullivan became a noted architect for using steel frames to construct skyscrapers for the first time while pioneering the idea of "form follows function."
    • Louis, Missouri.

  • Bibliography

    • Sullivan.

  • Louis XVIII and the Bourbon Restoration

  • Louis XV

    • Louis XV was born during the reign of his great-grandfather Louis XIV.
    • In April 1711, Louis Le Grand Dauphin suddenly died, making Louis XV's father, the Duke of Burgundy, the new Dauphin.
    • At that time, Burgundy had two living sons, Louis, Duke of Brittany, and his youngest son, the future Louis XV.
    • Following the advice of Fleury, Louis XV appointed his cousin Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, to replace the late Duke of Orléans.
    • This sharply contrasts Louis XV's reign from that of his great-grandfather and predecessor Louis XIV's.

  • Louis XVI

    • Louis XVI (1754 – 1793), born Louis-Auguste, was King of France from 1774 until his deposition in 1792, although his formal title after 1791 was King of the French.
    • Out of seven children, he was the second son of Louis, the Dauphin of France, and thus the grandson of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
    • During his childhood, Louis-Auguste was neglected by his parents who favored his older brother, Louis, duc de Bourgogne.
    • As king, Louis focused primarily on religious freedom and foreign policy.
    • Louis XVI at the age of 20, by Joseph Duplessis, ca. 1775.

  • Gothic Architecture: La Saint-Chapelle

    • Louis IX ruled during the so-called "golden century of Saint Louis," when the Kingdom of France was at its height of power in Europe, both politically and economically.
    • Louis' personal chapel, La Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, was copied more than once by his descendants elsewhere.
    • Louis, ca. 1300 from the church of Mainneville, Eure, France
    • Louis IX, or Saint Louis, was a revered leader and strong patron of the arts during the Gothic period.
    • Saint Louis' Sainte-Chapelle epitomizes the Rayonnant Gothic style as was King Louis IX's personal chapel.