Louis Sullivan
Architect
Architect
Area of Expertise: Skyscrapers, banks
Email: FatherSkyscraper@gmail.com
Website: LouieTheArchitect.com
Location: Boston, MA, United States
Phone: 1-603-272-448-328
Twitter: @LouieSUL
Experience:
- Worked for William Le Baron Jenney, Chicago 1873
- Partnered with Dankman ALder from 1881-1895
Education:
- Trained at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1874
- Apprentice to Frank Furres, Philadelphia
- Apprentice to William Le Baron Jenney, Chicago
- Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1873
- Graduated from English High Schoool, Boston
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Building
- Designed detailed entrance
Wainwright Building
- Designed in 1890
- Shown in 1925 still standing
- Built first ever skyscraper
Gage Building
- Designed in 1902
- Located in downtown Chicago, IL
Accomplishments:
- Designed many famous buildings
- Designed Bayard Building, Manhattan 1897
- Designed Wainwright Building, Saint Louis 1890
- Designed Walker Warehouse, Chicago 1889,
- Designed Trescher Building, Chicago 1884
- Designed Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Building
- Designed Gage Building, 1902
- Designed seven banks
- Wrote, "The Autobiography of an Idea." 1924
- Thought of as, "Father of Skyscrapers."
References:
- Trained apprentice, Frank Lloyd Wright
- Partnered with Dankman Alder
- Apprentice of Frank Furess
- Apprentice of William Le Baron Jenney