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Louis Sullivan

Lieber Meister (beloved master)—that’s what Frank Lloyd Wright called Louis Sullivan. As a very young man working at the firm of Adler and Sullivan, Wright was present as Sullivan forged the idea of an American architecture—not phony-baloney recycled antiquity but designs for democracy, strong as steel yet as individual in character as the dense foliage of Sullivan’s ornament for the Carson Pirie Scott building. The Auditorium building is Sullivan’s monument, rock solid and confident, with interiors to expand the spirit and a theater whose gorgeous design and generous scale aim to draw the elite and the laborer together to bask in its golden glow. —Lynn Becker

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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