Louis Sullivan after functionalism.(architect)

New Criterion | September 1, 2001| | Copyright

[W]hat is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? And at once we answer, it is lofty. ... It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line.

--Louis Sullivan

Ah, that supreme, erotic, high adventure of the mind that was his ornament.

--Frank Lloyd Wright

Was ever a genre of art scorned as much as was architectural ornament during the heyday of modernism? Decorative carving, panels, and friezes became abominations: excrescences ...

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