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Louis Sullivan

1856 - 1924

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Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism." He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Wright and Henry Hobson Richardson, Sullivan is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture." The phrase "form follows function" is attributed to him, although the idea was theorised by Viollet le Duc who considered that structure and function in architecture should be the sole determinants of form. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Sullivan has received more than 1,103,230 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Louis Sullivan is the 16th most popular architect (up from 20th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from United States (up from 206th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Architect.

Louis Sullivan is most famous for his design of the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building in Chicago, Illinois.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Louis Sullivan ranks 16 out of 424Before him are Donato Bramante, Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio, Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Oscar Niemeyer. After him are Zaha Hadid, Khufu, Francesco Borromini, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and Georges-Eugène Haussmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Louis Sullivan ranks 8Before him are Sigmund Freud, George Bernard Shaw, Woodrow Wilson, Philippe Pétain, J. J. Thomson, and Frederick Winslow Taylor. After him are Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Robert Peary, Napoléon, Prince Imperial, Emil Kraepelin, Georgi Plekhanov, and Tongzhi Emperor. Among people deceased in 1924, Louis Sullivan ranks 8Before him are Franz Kafka, Giacomo Puccini, Woodrow Wilson, Anatole France, Joseph Conrad, and Alfred Marshall. After him are Gabriel Fauré, Carl Spitteler, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Mallory, and Ferruccio Busoni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Sullivan ranks 171 out of 18,182Before him are Ava Gardner (1922), Buzz Aldrin (1930), Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), John Williams (1932), Robert K. Merton (1910), and Emily Dickinson (1830). After him are Denzel Washington (1954), Herman Melville (1819), Herbert Hoover (1874), Harvey Weinstein (1952), Jane Fonda (1937), and William James Sidis (1898).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Louis Sullivan ranks 2Before him are Frank Lloyd Wright (1867). After him are Richard Meier (1934), Philip Johnson (1906), Buckminster Fuller (1895), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Robert Venturi (1925), Peter Eisenman (1932), Charles Eames (1907), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), and Adrian Smith (1944).