Architect Louis Sullivan’s life and work are celebrated in two new books published by the Alphawood Foundation of Chicago. Each substantial volume catalogues items displayed during two exhibitions honoring Sullivan’s architectural achievements, both held during the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. These scholarly works reproduce vast collections of historic photographs, drawings, sketches, watercolor paintings, letters, and other related materials amassed by the authors. Louis Sullivan’s Idea tells of Sullivan’s most iconic building designs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the Auditorium Building in Chicago, the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, and the Wainwright Building in St. Louis. The book also covers important buildings no longer extant, like Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange Building, the Transportation Building from the World’s Columbian Exposition, and Chicago’s Garrick Theater. Reconstructing the Garrick concentrates on one of Sullivan’s earliest metal-framed skyscrapers, designed in collaboration with his business partner, Dankmar Adler. Many of the Sullivan-related items...
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June 2023
Book Review|
June 01 2023
Review: Louis Sullivan’s Idea and Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece
Tim Samuelson, with Chris Ware, ed.
Louis Sullivan’s Idea
Chicago
: Alphawood Exhibitions
, 2021
(distributed by University of Minnesota Press
), 384 pp., 300 color illus. $45 (cloth), ISBN 9781517912796John Vinci, ed., with Tim Samuelson, Eric Nordstrom, and Chris Ware
Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece
Chicago
: Alphawood Exhibitions
, 2021
(distributed by University of Minnesota Press
), 352 pp., 250 color illus. $45 (cloth), ISBN 9781517912802
John Patrick Smagner
John Patrick Smagner
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (2): 213–214.
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John Patrick Smagner; Review: Louis Sullivan’s Idea and Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2023; 82 (2): 213–214. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.2.213
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