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Louis Sullivan

1856–1924 · American architect · United States

Photographic portrait of architect Louis Sullivan, circa 1895.
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Bio

Advanced the early skyscraper and formulated influential ideas about form, function and ornament.

Key works

  • Wainwright Building
  • Carson Pirie Scott

THE RETHINK

Louis Sullivan helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Louis Sullivan changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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