Sullivanesque Urban Architecture and Ornamentation

Name: Sullivanesque Urban Architecture and Ornamentation
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ISBN: 9780252074646

ISBN-10: 0252074645

ISBN-13: 9780252074646

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ronald E. Schmitt

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Highly regarded in architecture for inspiring the Chicago School and the Prairie School, Louis Sullivan was an unwilling instigator of the method of facade composition - later influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George G. Elmslie - that came to be known as Sullivanesque. Decorative enhancements with botanical and animal themes, Sullivan's distinctive ornamentation mitigated the hard geometries of the buildings he designed, coinciding with his "form follows function" aesthetic. Sullivan's designs offered solutions to problems presented by new types and scales of buildings.Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 8.15" wide x 10.59" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.574
Language: English