New Book: Louis Sullivan's Idea by Tim Samuelson

[Paul Ringstrom]

https://thirdcoastreview.com/2022/08/13 ... hris-ware/

[Tim]

I just purchased a used copy at Amazon https://amzn.to/3AhdyOZ. It was about $35 with shipping.

I am about to go down a Louis Sullivan rabbit hole. Can you recommend any good biographies or the like? Thank you!

[Roderick Grant]

Robert C. Twombly wrote a biography of Sullivan some decades past. You might have questions about some of it, but by and large it is not a bad book. Better than Twombly's FLW bio.

Joseph M. Siry wrote a 550-page book "The Chicago Auditorium Building, Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City." As usual with Siry's work, a splendid book worth whatever the price is these days ($55 in 2002).

[DavidC]

Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work

The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism)

The Autobiography of an Idea

Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture

Louis Sullivan as He Lived; the Shaping of American Architecture, a Biography

The Idea of Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan Creating a New American Architecture

Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture


David

[JimM]

Louis Henry Sullivan Mario Manieri Elia, Princeton Architectural Press

[SDR]

While watching a television drama filmed last year at various locations in and around Bangkok, I spied what appears to be one of the elevator screens salvaged from the Chicago Stock Exchange building of 1893-4, installed in an unidentified high-rise apartment.

https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/20 ... -sullivan/

(having trouble posting images today . . .)

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[Roderick Grant]

3 more;

"Louis Sullivan The Banks" (MIT 1987) A paper book by Lauren Weingarden about some of the best works of LHS's career.

"The Curve of the Arch, The Story of Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank" (Minnesota Historical Society Press 1985) Larry Millett's excellent hardbound 202-page book on the best bank of the lot.

"Architecture As Nature, The Transcendentalist Idea of Louis Sullivan" (University of Wisconsin Press 1981) Narciso Menocal's concise 231-page hardbound book that includes residential architecture while he worked with George Grant Elmslie and alone, venturing where no man had gone before.

Tim, we will drive you broke before we're done with you!

[Tim]

Thank you all!

Yes, architecture as a hobby/interest can be expensive!

[SDR]

The Stock Exchange screen installation in Bangkok, mentioned in my post above. I wonder how many elevators the building had . . .

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[Roderick Grant]

The Stock Exchange was a huge building, so I imagine there were several banks of elevators. I know I have seen a published floor plan somewhere, but I cannot find it in my own library. Perhaps it was published in a periodical back when it was demolished. There were a lot of articles bemoaning the tragedy at that time.