Louis H. Sullivan: The Banks

by Lauren S. Weingarden

Book Overview

Using an approach that combines literature, philosophy, and the visual arts, Lauren Weingarden restores Louis H. Sullivan's eight midwestern banks, built between 1906 and 1919, to a new and prominent place in his ouevre. Long regarded as the eccentric addenda to a lapsed career, the bank commissions can now be seen as part of a mature architect's vision and perhaps the truest embodiment of the democratic architecture for which Sullivan had campaigned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026273091X
• ISBN13: 9780262730914
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.