Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan

by David Van Zanten

Among many books about the person and work of Louis Sullivan, this unusual volume explores the idea that Sullivan's ornament became increasingly central to his architectural enterprise as his career unfolded. It holds that he used ornament to articulate the masses of the skyscrapers he built at the peak of his career and to humanize them in an increasingly hostile cityscape. In his impoverished old age, when important commissions no longer came to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393730387
• ISBN13: 9780393730388
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 10.4"