LOUIS SULLIVAN ’s

WAINWRIGHT BUILDING

• Form Follows Function

• Ornamentation Style- Geometric Organic

• Materials: Steel Frames And Cladded Ornamental Masonry

LOUIS SULLIVAN ,the father of modern

architecture

The Wainwright building

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Client: Ellis Wainwright, St. Louis brewers association

Designed by: Adler and Sullivan

Built:1891

Style: Chicago School

• Does not mean form is less important

Form following function in the wainwright building:

• Skyscraper=verticality=vertical strips of ornamentation

Concept 1:FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

Considered the building as a column

• Top - cornice

• Tenth storey as the frieze

• Next 7 stories as “fluted • shaft”

• First 2 stories as “base”

CORNICE AND FRIEZE

PIERS BASE

2: Material:

• Steel frames

• Brown sandstone• (first two stories)

• Cladded ornamental masonry-terracotta

CONCEPT 3:GEOMETRIC ORGANIC ORNAMENTATION:

BELOW WINDOWSON PIERS

ENTRANCE

AT THE TOP

DRAWINGS

CAST IRON ORNMENTATION

OTHER WORKS OF ORNAMENTATION

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