On the 168th anniversary of architect Louis Sullivan’s birth, I’m thinking of what it was like for the then 17-year-old when he first arrived in Chicago, the day before Thanksgiving in 1873.
Here's my favorite quotation from Sullivan that he said when he got off the train in Chicago from Philadelphia “A crude extravaganza: An intoxicating rawness: A sense of big things to be done. For ‘Big’ was the word. ‘Biggest’ was preferred and ‘the biggest in the world’ was the braggart phrase on every tongue.”
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Here's my favorite quotation from Sullivan that he said when he got off the train in Chicago from Philadelphia “A crude extravaganza: An intoxicating rawness: A sense of big things to be done. For ‘Big’ was the word. ‘Biggest’ was preferred and ‘the biggest in the world’ was the braggart phrase on every tongue.”
He, with Adler, took it to even bigger heights.