Louis Sullivan & Frank Lloyd Wright
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The Greatest Architects of America
Louis Sullivan1856 - 1924
LOUIS SULLIVAN
✓ America’s most influential architect✓ “father of modernism”✓ creator of the modern skyscraper✓ mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright✓ inspiration to the Prairie School
EARLY LIFE
✓ born to Irish and Swedish immigrants in 1856
✓ grew up at grandparent’s farm learning things about nature
✓ spent a lot of time around Boston✓ exploring and looking at buildings✓ studied architecture at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology✓ entered at the age of 16✓ he left MIT in a year to live in
Pennsylvania✓ then he went to Chicago, where he
worked with the father of the skyscraper, William Le Baron
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✓ went to Paris in 1874✓ studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts✓ returned to Chicago in 1875✓ got a job as a draftsman in the office of
Joseph S. Johnson & John Edelman✓ left Johnson in 1879✓ worked in the office of Dankmar Adler✓ the firm of Adler & Sullivan designed
over 180 buildings during its existence
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✓ Frank Lloyd Wright joined the firm in 1887✓ Sullivan became Wright’s mentor
Contribution
✓ development of the high-rise building, skyscrapers
✓ great mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright
Bibliography
http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=22&entryid=315996&searchtext=louis+sullivan&type=simple&option=all
http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=22&entryid=306914&searchtext=frank+lloyd+wright&type=simple&option=all
http://www.prairiestyles.com/lsullivan.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright
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