Louis sullivan biography books

September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924; between these dates is locked the remarkable life of Louis Henry Sullivan. Why remarkable? Because, had it not been for his revolutionary for his time innovations in the sphere of high-rise building, we would never have had such pearls of modern architecture as Burj Al Arab Jumeirah in Dubai, and the magnificent Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

Louis Sullivan Facts

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Louis Sullivan was a true genius of architecture

Born and bred in Boston, Sullivan graduated from high school a year before his classmates. Then, having entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of sixteen, he passed the exams from the curriculum for the first and second year in the course of just one semester.

After one more year at MIT, Louis Sullivan decided that he needed more hands-on experience and went to work under Frank Furness, a prominent architect in Philadelphia.

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