The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, v… - Louis Sullivan
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, v…
- Louis Sullivan
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. - Louis Sullivan
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition. - Louis Sullivan
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it no… - Louis Sullivan
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it no…
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable. - Louis Sullivan
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action. - Louis Sullivan
To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. - Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Form ever follows function. - Louis Sullivan
Form ever follows function.
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical… - Louis Sullivan
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical…
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