Louis Sullivan

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Louis Sullivan was a pioneering American architect often called the "father of skyscrapers" and a key figure in the Chicago School, known for his innovative high-rise designs and the maxim "form follows function."


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American architect
architect
human
basedIn Chicago
burialPlace Graceland Cemetery
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1856-09-03
dateOfDeath 1924-04-14
designed steel-frame high-rise buildings
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
École des Beaux-Arts
employer Adler & Sullivan
era early 20th century architecture
late 19th century architecture
familyName Sullivan
fieldOfWork architectural ornament
commercial architecture
skyscraper design
genre organic architecture
givenName Louis
hasOccupation architectural theorist
influenced Chicago School architects
Frank Lloyd Wright
languageOfWorkOrName English
motto form follows function
movement Chicago School of architecture
Modern architecture
nationality American
nickname father of modernism
father of skyscrapers
notableIdea form follows function
notableWork Auditorium Building
Carson Pirie Scott Building
Guaranty Building
National Farmers Bank of Owatonna
Schlesinger & Mayer Store
Transportation Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition
Wainwright Building
occupation architect
partner Dankmar Adler
placeOfBirth Boston
Massachusetts
United States of America
placeOfDeath Chicago
Illinois
United States of America
sexOrGender male
workLocation Chicago
wrote The Autobiography of an Idea


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