170 years ago – on September 3, 1856 – American architect Louis Sullivan was born.
🏙 He is called the “Father of Skyscrapers” and one of the founders and ideologues of the Chicago School of architecture, which began designing them.
“There must be in it [the building] the force and power of altitude, the glory and pride of elevation. It must be in every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation,” Sullivan wrote in an article for Lippincott’s Magazine in 1896.
The first skyscrapers inspired not only admiration but also fear among their contemporaries.
➡️ How steel and elevators changed urban architecture – in Vedomosti’s article
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