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Louis Sullivan after functionalism.(architect)
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September 1, 2001|
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[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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; ...Pennington, New Jersey and Albert F. Jr. (Bonnie) Ferrara...sister, Sally (Robert) Gobat of Chicago and a sister...in death by her husband, Albert F. Ferrara, Sr. on Aug. 4 and a brother, Charles Frangiamore. Funeral Mass...
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