Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th - Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture

by Lauren S. Weingarden

For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices - literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic - and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138276189
• ISBN13: 9781138276185
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"