Artist:
Louis Sullivan
Title:
Chicago Stock Exchange
Year:
1894
Adress:
Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
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The east entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago is marked by the stone arch entrance to the old Chicago Stock Exchange.
Designed by Louis Sullivan in 1894, the Exchange was torn down in 1972, but salvaged portions of the original trading room were brought to the Art Institute and reconstructed.
The upper spandrels of the arch are two commemorative medallions, four feet in diameter. The left medallion depicts the house of P.F.W. Peck, the first structure on this site. The right medallion originally carried the legend:"The First Brick Building Built in Chicago Was Built upon This Site". As the Stock Exchange was nearing completion, this was discovered to be untrue, and the right medallion was replaced with the date"1893, " the year construction began.
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Louis Henry Sullivan, architecte américain, est né le 3 septembre 1856 à Boston et est mort à Chicago le 14 avril 1924. A Boston, Louis Sullivan a étudié brièvement l'architecture au Massachusetts Institute of Technology et s'est établi à Chicago en 1873. Il a été associé à la première génération de gratte-ciel américains car la technologie de l'acier permettait des bâtiments plus grands et plus spacieux qu'il ne l'était possible précédemment. Il était un des maîtres de l'école de Chicago en architecture. Il a travaillé avec de nombreux architectes, incluant Frank Furness, William LeBaron Jenney, Dankmar Adler.
A partir des années 1890, il se lance dans la construction de gratte-ciel à armature d'acier et à toit plat qui gardent une division tripartite : Wainwright Building, Saint-Louis, 1890-1891 Stock Exchange, Chicago, 1893-1894 - Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1894-8195.
Louis Sullivan réalisa une série de petites banques dans le Midwest américain, remarquables par le mélange de formes audacieuses et la somptuosité de l'ornementation caractéristique du talent de l'architecte. Il est le fondateur de l'école de Chicago et exerça une grande influence sur l'architecture américaine du 20e siècle (il fut aussi le mentor de Frank Lloyd Wright). (Musique : George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue).
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Louis Henry Sullivan, American architect, was born on September 3, 1856 in Boston and died in Chicago on April 14, 1924. Boston, Louis Sullivan briefly studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and established himself in Chicago in 1873. He was associated with the first generation of American skyscrapers as steel technology allowed buildings larger and roomier than it was possible previously. He was one of the masters of the Chicago school in architecture. He has worked with many architects, including Frank Furness, William LeBaron Jenney, Dankmar Adler.
From the early 1890s, he embarks on the construction of skyscrapers in frame of steel and flat roof that keep a tripartite division: Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1890-1891 Stock Exchange, Chicago, 1893-1894 - Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1894-8195.
Louis Sullivan made a series of small banks in the Midwest, remarkable for the mixture of bold forms and the sumptuousness of the characteristic ornamentation of the talent of the architect. He is the founder of the Chicago school and exerted a great influence on American architecture of the 20th century (he was also the mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright). (Music: George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue).
The east entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago is marked by the stone arch entrance to the old Chicago Stock Exchange.
Designed by Louis Sullivan in 1894, the Exchange was torn down in 1972, but salvaged portions of the original trading room were brought to the Art Institute and reconstructed.
The upper spandrels of the arch are two commemorative medallions, four feet in diameter. The left medallion depicts the house of P.F.W. Peck, the first structure on this site. The right medallion originally carried the legend:"The First Brick Building Built in Chicago Was Built upon This Site". As the Stock Exchange was nearing completion, this was discovered to be untrue, and the right medallion was replaced with the date"1893, " the year construction began.
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Louis Henry Sullivan, architecte américain, est né le 3 septembre 1856 à Boston et est mort à Chicago le 14 avril 1924. A Boston, Louis Sullivan a étudié brièvement l'architecture au Massachusetts Institute of Technology et s'est établi à Chicago en 1873. Il a été associé à la première génération de gratte-ciel américains car la technologie de l'acier permettait des bâtiments plus grands et plus spacieux qu'il ne l'était possible précédemment. Il était un des maîtres de l'école de Chicago en architecture. Il a travaillé avec de nombreux architectes, incluant Frank Furness, William LeBaron Jenney, Dankmar Adler.
A partir des années 1890, il se lance dans la construction de gratte-ciel à armature d'acier et à toit plat qui gardent une division tripartite : Wainwright Building, Saint-Louis, 1890-1891 Stock Exchange, Chicago, 1893-1894 - Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1894-8195.
Louis Sullivan réalisa une série de petites banques dans le Midwest américain, remarquables par le mélange de formes audacieuses et la somptuosité de l'ornementation caractéristique du talent de l'architecte. Il est le fondateur de l'école de Chicago et exerça une grande influence sur l'architecture américaine du 20e siècle (il fut aussi le mentor de Frank Lloyd Wright). (Musique : George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue).
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Louis Henry Sullivan, American architect, was born on September 3, 1856 in Boston and died in Chicago on April 14, 1924. Boston, Louis Sullivan briefly studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and established himself in Chicago in 1873. He was associated with the first generation of American skyscrapers as steel technology allowed buildings larger and roomier than it was possible previously. He was one of the masters of the Chicago school in architecture. He has worked with many architects, including Frank Furness, William LeBaron Jenney, Dankmar Adler.
From the early 1890s, he embarks on the construction of skyscrapers in frame of steel and flat roof that keep a tripartite division: Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1890-1891 Stock Exchange, Chicago, 1893-1894 - Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1894-8195.
Louis Sullivan made a series of small banks in the Midwest, remarkable for the mixture of bold forms and the sumptuousness of the characteristic ornamentation of the talent of the architect. He is the founder of the Chicago school and exerted a great influence on American architecture of the 20th century (he was also the mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright). (Music: George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue).