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LOUIS SULLIVAN ’s
WAINWRIGHT BUILDING
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• Form Follows Function
• Ornamentation Style- Geometric Organic
• Materials: Steel Frames And Cladded Ornamental Masonry
LOUIS SULLIVAN ,the father of modern
architecture
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The Wainwright building
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Client: Ellis Wainwright, St. Louis brewers association
Designed by: Adler and Sullivan
Built:1891
Style: Chicago School
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• Does not mean form is less important
Form following function in the wainwright building:
• Skyscraper=verticality=vertical strips of ornamentation
Concept 1:FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
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Considered the building as a column
• Top - cornice
• Tenth storey as the frieze
• Next 7 stories as “fluted • shaft”
• First 2 stories as “base”
CORNICE AND FRIEZE
PIERS BASE
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2: Material:
• Steel frames
• Brown sandstone• (first two stories)
• Cladded ornamental masonry-terracotta
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CONCEPT 3:GEOMETRIC ORGANIC ORNAMENTATION:
BELOW WINDOWSON PIERS
ENTRANCE
AT THE TOP
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DRAWINGS
CAST IRON ORNMENTATION
OTHER WORKS OF ORNAMENTATION
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