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    Louis Sullivan was an American architect born in 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts. He decided at age 11 that he wanted to be an architect and studied at MIT and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sullivan worked with several prominent architects in Chicago and is known for designing over 180 buildings with partner Dankman Adler. Some of Sullivan's most notable works include the Wainwright Building, the Auditorium Building, and the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, all located in Chicago. Sullivan believed that "form ever follows function" and incorporated organic and geometric designs into his buildings.

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    Louis Sullivan was an American architect born in 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts. He decided at age 11 that he wanted to be an architect and studied at MIT and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sullivan worked with several prominent architects in Chicago and is known for designing over 180 buildings with partner Dankman Adler. Some of Sullivan's most notable works include the Wainwright Building, the Auditorium Building, and the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, all located in Chicago. Sullivan believed that "form ever follows function" and incorporated organic and geometric designs into his buildings.

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    Louis Sullivan was an American architect born in 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts. He decided at age 11 that he wanted to be an architect and studied at MIT and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sullivan worked with several prominent architects in Chicago and is known for designing over 180 buildings with partner Dankman Adler. Some of Sullivan's most notable works include the Wainwright Building, the Auditorium Building, and the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, all located in Chicago. Sullivan believed that "form ever follows function" and incorporated organic and geometric designs into his buildings.

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    Louis Sullivan was an American architect born in 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts. He decided at age 11 that he wanted to be an architect and studied at MIT and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Sullivan worked with several prominent architects in Chicago and is known for designing over 180 buildings with partner Dankman Adler. Some of Sullivan's most notable works include the Wainwright Building, the Auditorium Building, and the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, all located in Chicago. Sullivan believed that "form ever follows function" and incorporated organic and geometric designs into his buildings.

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    LOUIS SULLIVAN

    (1856-1924)
    LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN
    o born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 3, 1856
    o decided to be an architect at the age of 11
    o on 1872, he applied to the Building and Architetecture
    program at MIT
    o on 1874, he entered Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
    o after 6 years, he worked for Dankman Alder
    o on 1882, Sullivan and Adler became partners
    o left college on June 1873 and took a job with Frank
    Furness
    o found a position with Arch. William Le Baron Jenney
    in Chicago
    o Sullivan and Adler designed approximately 180
    buildings
    oHe died on April 14, 1924, of kidney disease and
    inflammation of the cardiac muscles
    o returned to Chicago in June 1875 as a draftsman
    PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPT
    It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
    of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human
    and things superhuman that
    form ever follows function,
    This is the law


    masonry walls
    intertwining wines and leaves
    geometric shapes
    organic symbolisms
    WORKS
    National Farmers Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1908)
    WORKS
    Bradley House, Madison, United States (1909)
    WORKS
    Peoples Federal Savings & Loan, Sidney, Ohio (1918)
    WORKS
    Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri (1891)
    WORKS
    Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York (1894)
    WORKS
    Auditorium Building, Chicago, United States (1889)
    WORKS
    Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, Chicago, Illinois (1899)
    WORKS
    Bayard Building, New York City (1899)
    WORKS
    Krause Music Store, Chicago, Illinois (1922)
    Thats all.
    Thank
    you!

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