Title:
Louis Sullivan the struggle for American architecture
Publication Information:
[Chicago] : Whitecap Films, [2010]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (97 mins) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 12 cm.
ISBN:
9780615392011
General Note:
Region 1, NTSC; widescreen presentation
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010
Abstract:
An overview of the career of Louis Sullivan, progenitor of the modern skyscraper, responsible for some of Chicago's most famous architecture
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Summary
Summary
The first feature-length documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924). Known by historians as the 'father of the skyscraper' and creator of the iconic phrase 'form follows function,' Sullivan was on top of his profession in 1890. Then a series of setbacks plunged him into destitute obscurity from which he never recovered. Yet his persistent belief in the power of his ideas created some of America's most beautiful buildings ever created, and inspired Sullivan's protege, Frank Lloyd Wright, to fulfill his own dream of a truly American style of architecture.
