Louis
Sullivan
Louis
Sullivan graduated from the Chicago School of Architecture in the late 1800’s,
he was one of the most influential students to ever graduate from that school. He
was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1856. Sullivan only studied architecture
for one year at MIT; he then left MIT to go to Ecole Des Beaux, an art school.
Sullivan wanted a more American type of architecture, so he made appropriate
tall commercial office buildings. Sullivan’s most famous building was the
Transportation Building which was finished in 1893, standing at 960 feet tall.
Sullivan also
made the Carson, Pirie Scott Department Store, Auditorium Theater, and the
Charnley House which was made in Chicago. Most of his structures featured
simple lines and spacious windows. He used new durable plate glass which made
his buildings lofty. He had a vision that his buildings would be built more
upward, instead of spread across a wide area. Sullivan died in 1924; he was
penniless and forgotten to the public by this time in his life.
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