The tall office building artistically considered
Written in 1896 by Louis Sullivan, the founder of the Chicago School, of which reputable phrases were invented such as « form follows function », this text analyzes the characteristics of a new urban form for the city of the nineteenth century. Sullivan questions the role of the architect within these architectural standards – vertical and repetitive office buildings, the birth of the Fordist production-materialization model in urban space. Louis H. Sullivan is an American architect (1856‒1924), who has been called the father of skyscrapers.