SULLIVAN, LOUIS

ORNAMENT IN ARCHITECTURE

By Louis Sullivan

Ornament, Sullivan suggests, must be inherent in the structure of modernity. And only America, a country not held back by its own history, can develop that new architecture in which rationalism and ornament fuse together.  Read more

THE TALL OFFICE BUILDING ARTISTICALLY CONSIDERED

By Louis Sullivan

This is the seminal essay on the emergent typology of the skyscraper in which Sullivan outlines the principles and techniques behind building tall. Read more