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