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Louis Sullivan : creating a new American architecture / Patrick F. Cannon ; photography by James Caulfield.
Fine Arts Library NA737.S9 C36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cannon, Patrick F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sullivan, Louis H.
- Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924.
- Architecture--Illinois--Chicago Region.
- Architecture.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Illinois--Chicago Region.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Pomegranate, [2011]
- Summary:
- Cannon, author of several books on Chicago architecture, presents a pictorial survey of the works of Louis Henry Sullivan, who was mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, creator of the skyscraper, and famously expressed the modernist credo "Form follows function." While he precedes each section with biographical detail, Cannon maintains the focus on Sullivan's work, including contemporary photography of each of his extant buildings in Chicago and several outside the city, as well as period photographs of important demolished sites such as the Schiller Building. James Caulfield's rich and detailed photography captures the Art Nouveau grace and Prairie School simplicity of skyscrapers, warehouses, churches and temples, banks and private homes, and salvaged fragments of dismantled buildings including the Chicago Stock Exchange. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- A life in architecture
- Housing a growing Chicago
- Reaching for the sky
- The wonder of the age
- Temples to God, temples of commerce
- Decline and triumph.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-191) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 0764957716
- 9780764957710
- OCLC:
- 659413238
- Publisher Number:
- 99947773673
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