Biography of louis sullivan

For the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, see Louis Wade Sullivan.

Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an Americanarchitect, and is often referred to as the "father of modernism." He is considered by many the creator of the modern skyscraper and was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School.

He is also well-known as being an important mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and an inspiration to architects of the Prairie School.

Louis Sullivan coined the phrase "form ever follows function," which, shortened to "form follows function," became the great battle-cry of modernist architects.

Sullivan was the first to cope with the technical and stylistic crisis that came with the development of steel frame buildings. While his buildings could be spare and crisp in their principal masses, he often punctuated their plain surfaces with eruptions of lush Art Nouveau and something like Celtic Revival decorations, usu