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Louis Henry Sullivan by Mario Manieri-Elia,Louis H. Sullivan Pdf
Louis Henry Sullivan traces his life and oeuvre. It addresses his most famous buildings - including the Auditorium Building in Chicago, the Wainwright Building in Saint Louis, the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, and the National Farmers Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota - and reveals many of his lesser-known projects to be underappreciated masterpieces. For the first time, Sullivan's work, which has often been misappropriated, is explored in its historical and theoretical context.
This volume brings together for the first time all the papers Louis Sullivan intended for a public audience, from his first interview in 1882 to his last essay in 1924. Organized chronologically, these speeches, interviews, essays, letters to editors, and committee reports enable readers to trace Sullivan's development from a brash young assistant to Dankmar Adler to an architectural elder statesman. Robert Twombly, an authority on Sullivan's work and life, has introduced each document with a headnote explaining its significance, locating it in time and place, and examining its immediate context. He has also provided a general introduction that analyzes Sullivan's writing style and objectives, his major philosophical themes, and the sources of his ideas. With the help of headnotes and introduction, readers will get a thorough sense of Sullivan's concerns, discover how his ideas evolved and changed, and appreciate the circumstances under which new interests emerged. This collection is a handy introduction to the full range of Sullivan's thinking, the book with which readers interested in the architect's writings should begin. As a companion volume to Robert Twombly's biography of Sullivan, it gives a comprehensive picture of one of America's most important architects and cultural figures.
The Autobiography of an Idea by Louis H. Sullivan Pdf
The famous American architect's fascinating look at the early years of his pioneering work, which led to his being called the "father of the skyscraper." Far from an ordinary document of records and dates, Sullivan's passionate book crystallizes his insights and opinions into an organic theory of architecture. Includes a wealth of projects and evaluations, as well as 34 full-page plates.
Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings by Louis H. Sullivan Pdf
Kindergarten Chats and other writings by Louis H. Sullivan George Wittenborn. Originally published in 1917. Editorial Note: The printing of the unpublished revision of Kindergarten Chats in this volume carries out at last Louis Sullivans wish that his work be issued in book form his Foreword., written in July 1918, is our authority. That no publisher was found during the six remaining years of Ms life., and that a good deal of vagueness and misunderstanding arose concerning Sullivans attitude to this work as well as with regard to the existence and condition of a revised manuscript reflects the com monplace that human nature and scholarship are inextricably bound together. Sullivan believed that a building represented an act,, and that such an act re vealed the man behind it, the mind and ethics of the architect, more conclusively and unerringly than any statement. In this sense, the fifty-two consecutive essays entitled Kindergarten Chats are an act, requiring no officious introduction or inter pretation. Nevertheless, a few general remarks should be made to suggest the nature and significance of Sullivans editing of 1918, particularly since the first version published serially in 1901 is available only in a few obscure files, and that edited by Claude Bragdon in 1934 is out of print. From June to October 1918, Sullivan worked over the manuscript and produced the text which follows, and which therefore represents its definitive form. The actual manuscript gives the impression that Sullivan revised in the exact meaning of the word, that he gave attention to every sentence and paragraph, that his alterations of word and phrase, his cutting and rewriting, were the product of genuine reconsid eration and a desire for greater clarity. The redundant or unprecise adjective was discarded the specific term was substituted for the more general or the vague one repetitive passages were deleted. Throughout this revision and the text here pub lished was prepared directly from the original manuscript it may be said that the secondary has been sacrificed to the primary...
Author : James F. O'Gorman Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 194 pages File Size : 42,9 Mb Release : 1992-09-15 Category : Architecture ISBN : 0226620727
Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture by LaurenS. Weingarden Pdf
For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices - literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic - and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic analysis, and a pragmatic concept of sign-functions, she restores the integrity of Sullivan's artistic choices and his historical position as a culminating figure within nineteenth-century romanticism. By giving equal weight to Louis Sullivan's writings and designs, Weingarden shows how he translated both Ruskin's tenets of Gothic naturalism and Whitman's poetry of the American landscape into elemental structural forms and organic ornamentation. Viewed as a site where various romantic discourses converged, Sullivan's oeuvre demands a cross-disciplinary exploration of each discursive practice, and its "rules of accumulation, exclusion, reactivation." The overarching theme of this study is the interrogation and restitution of those Foucauldian rules that enabled Sullivan to articulate architecture as a pictorial mode of landscape art, which he considered co-equal with the spiritual and didactic functions of landscape poetry.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Kunst - Architektur, Baugeschichte, Denkmalpflege, Note: 1,3, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Kunsthistorisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Form follows Function, 27 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Louis Henry Sullivan prägte den Satz „Form follows Function“, der heutzutage wahrscheinlich bekannter ist als der Architekt selbst. Doch was verbirgt sich hinter diesem Lehrsatz? Der Brockhaus weist unter dem Begriff „Funktion“ die Synonyme „Aufgabe, Tätigkeit, Stellung“ auf1, des weiteren divergiert die Bedeutung des Begriffs im Zusammenhang mit verschiedenen Wissenschaften, wie der Mathematik, der Philosophie, der Medizin und der Sprache. Die Aufgabe die das Gebäude erfüllt, also seine Nutzung, sollte aus der Form, aus seinem äußeren Erscheinungsbild hervorgehen. In verschiedenen Lexika wird außerdem auf den Funktionalismus hingewiesen, der sich um 1920 in der Architektur etablierte. Dort heißt es, dass diese Kunstrichtung dem Objekt „Zwecke und Aufgaben zuweist“ und deshalb „der Gebrauchszweck [...] über die Form entscheiden [soll].“2 Als Vertreter wird das Bauhaus genannt, deren Umgang mit dem Objekt sich jedoch, trotz der vergleichbaren Intention, von Sullivans unterscheidet. Wie Sullivan „Form follows Function“ umsetzte, wie seine weitere Architekturtheorie aussah und wie er diese in seinen Gebäuden verwirklichte, ist Thema dieser Hausarbeit. Da Sullivans Kindheit ihn in seiner Theorie beeinflusste, die in seiner Biographie „The Autobiography of an Idea“3 aus dem Jahr 1924 nachzuvollziehen ist, wird das erste Kapitel das sein Leben beleuchten, um darauf aufbauend seine Architekturtheorie und auf ihn einwirkende und von ihm ausgehende Einflüsse zu erörtern. Den Abschluss der Arbeit bilden drei seiner Gebäude, das Auditorium, das Wainwright Building und das Schlesinger & Mayer Department Store, die als Beispiele vorgestellt werden. An ihnen wird versucht, die Umsetzung seiner Architekturtheorie zu hinterfragen. 1 Brockhaus, Die Enzyklopädie in vierundzwanzig Bänden, Bd. 8 ( (Frit-Goti): „Funktion“. Leipzig/Mannheim 1996, S.61-62. 2 Knaurs Lexikon in zwanzig Bänden, Bd. 6 (Fe-Ge): „Funktion“. Stuttgart 1974, S. 2019-2020. 3 Sullivan, Louis Henry: The Autobiography of an Idea (1924). Hrsg.: Ralph Marlowe Line, New York 1956.
Louis Sullivan by Patrick F. Cannon,Louis H. Sullivan Pdf
On the eve of the twentieth century, Chicago was rapidly outgrowing its borders. Architect Louis Henry Sullivan answered the demand for more office space, theaters, department stores, and financial centers by pioneering what would become an essential model for city life - the skyscraper. Louis Sullivan's designs stand today as leading exemplars of Chicago School architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright, who worked as an assistant to Sullivan, liked to refer to him as his "lieber Meister," or "beloved master." Having spent much of his career in a late Victorian world that bristled with busy, fussy ornament for ornament's sake, Sullivan tossed all that bric-a-brac into the fire with the now famous dictum "Form follows function." He honored this ideal in his skyscrapers and his residential commissions, as well as in the small-town banks so important to the second half of his career. In Louis Sullivan: Creating a New American Architecture, nearly two hundred photographs with descriptive captions document Sullivan's genius for modern design. Patrick Cannon introduces each chapter with key biographical information and discusses the influences that shaped Sullivan's illustrious career. Rare historical photographs chronicle those buildings that, sadly, have since been destroyed, while James Caulfield's contemporary photography captures Sullivan's existing Chicago buildings and many other structures in Eastern and Midwestern cities.
The Tender Detail tells a story about the repression of sentimentality through architectural ornament. The protagonists are Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, two of the most important architects and designers of ornament in American history. Interweaving close readings of their architecture and writings with wide-ranging discussions about sexuality, gender, and philosophy, the book explores how both men worked to solve the problem of late nineteenth-century ornamentation. It suggests that their solutions, while widely different, were both intimately rooted in the tender emotions of sentimentality. Viewing ornament in this way reveals much, not only about Sullivan and Wright's artistic intentions, but also about the role of affect, the value of beauty, and the agency and ontology of objects. Illuminated by personal stories from their respective autobiographies, which add a level of human interest unusual in an academic work, The Tender Detail is a readable, scholarly study which sheds fresh light on Sullivan and Wright's relationship, their work, and on the nature of ornament itself.
