American architect (1856-1924)
He gave the skyscraper its theory — that a tall building should look like what it does, not like a dressed-up temple — and the slogan still taught in every studio: form follows function.
Louis Henry Sullivan was born September 3, 1856, and became the defining architect of the Chicago School, the movement that reimagined what cities could look like after steel made height possible. He mentored Frank Lloyd Wright and shaped the Prairie School architects who followed. Along with Wright and Henry Hobson Richardson, he forms what's called "the recognized trinity of American architecture." His phrase "form follows function" distilled older ideas and bent them toward the new scale of the skyscraper, arguing that a building's skin should express its purpose rather than mimic the past.…
Sourced, dated quotes from Louis Sullivan
The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain — in the people.
Truly we are face to face with great things. The mind of youth should be squarely turned to these phenomena.
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.
High ideals make a people strong. … decay comes when ideals wane.
I am not of those who believe in lackadaisical methods.
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