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Louis Sullivan Wikipedia Page

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I was curious as to what more Sullivan did in his work, we've touched on some of his major works, but I'd like to see what more he did in his craft. This page gives us a long list of his achievements and legacy, and also a deeper dive into his career.

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Louis Sullivan was an American Architect who was titled the "Father of Skyscrapers" and the "Father of Modernism" because of his influence on architecture in the 1880s to 1920s. Sullivan's work is Chicago based, after he moved there in 1873 to take part in the abundance of new work after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. He built a lot of theaters at first that won him a lot of praise in the community but he soon branched out to more advanced projects such as the infamous steel high-rise that was developed in 1894. Later on in his career in 1890, Sullivan was one of the ten U.S. architects, which is a very high title. Sullivan has a very contradictory legacy on the architecture of Chicago, he is considered a modernist, but also was known for having a "international style". During the postwar era of urban renewal, and a lot of his work was demolished after his passing. After the passing of Nickel in Sullivan's Stock Exchange building, in 1972 the Richard Nickel Committee was formed. They created and published a book in 2010 that was a completion of 256 commissions of Alder and Sullivan.