Louis Sullivan

And not only were these non-Jewish architects (who bested Cesar Pelli among several other competitors for this commission) advised that the project was -- in a religious sense -- meaningless, they were also daunted by the challenge of designing a new building in a narrow, deep site on South Michigan Avenue, which had seen no new architecture of note for over a century and was anchored by iconic works such as Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theater (1889) and Daniel Burnham's Railway Exchange Building (1904).

Unconventional and on Budget 2008

It's Nickel's focused views that reveal the genius of Louis Sullivan.

J. Michael Welton: Adler, Sullivan and Nickel J. Michael Welton 2011

It's Nickel's focused views that reveal the genius of Louis Sullivan.

J. Michael Welton: Adler, Sullivan and Nickel J. Michael Welton 2011

Together in 1954 they mounted an exhibit on the architecture of Louis Sullivan, and then embarked on a book project that has finally evolved into "The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan" today.

J. Michael Welton: Adler, Sullivan and Nickel J. Michael Welton 2011

Together in 1954 they mounted an exhibit on the architecture of Louis Sullivan, and then embarked on a book project that has finally evolved into "The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan" today.

J. Michael Welton: Adler, Sullivan and Nickel J. Michael Welton 2011

But as Richard Pells reminds us in "Modernist America," the Bauhaus theorists simply adopted the line from the American architect Louis Sullivan, the pioneer of the skyscraper, who proclaimed in 1896 that the appearance of a building should be dictated by its actual use.

Making It New in the New World Steven Watson 2011

The former Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company store on the corner of State and Madison was designed by legendary architect Louis Sullivan, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and a master in his own right.

Off Target? Superstore To Move Into Historic Downtown Building Will Guzzardi 2011

For a prolific 15-year period between 1880 and 1895, Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan teamed up to produce an architecture that was stridently American -- one that simultaneously drew from nature for its ornament, while creating simple, modern forms on steel frame walls.

J. Michael Welton: Adler, Sullivan and Nickel J. Michael Welton 2011

The former Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company store on the corner of State and Madison was designed by legendary architect Louis Sullivan, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and a master in his own right.

Off Target? Superstore To Move Into Historic Downtown Building Will Guzzardi 2011

It's Nickel's focused views that reveal the genius of Louis Sullivan.

J. Michael Welton: Adler, Sullivan and Nickel J. Michael Welton 2011