Sullivan's Skyscrapers as the Expression of Nineteenth Century Technology

(1856-1924) was the first great modern architect, the first to create a new and powerful vocabulary of forms derived from the major cultural determinants of his age. He was the most imaginative and the most articulate figure among a small group of creative men in Europe and America who, suddenly around 1890, struck out in a new direction with the deliberate intention of breaking once and for all with the traditional architectural forms of the

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• Preservation, Polemics, and Power

  Sharon Irish•Technology and Culture•2008

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