HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

1. Chicago
Louis Sullivan: „Form follows function“
Among the first ones who designed buildings consequently according to
constructional and functional purposes are the architects of the so called (1st)
„School of Chicago“. In the last quarter of the 19th century they built - by the
help of the steel skeleton - the prototypes of multifunctional skyscrapers and
office buildings.
Background: Rebuilding of Chicago after the great fire of 1871, increasing land
prices.

2. William Le Baron Jenney, 1st Leiter
Building, Chicago 1879

3. Compare: James Bogardus and J.P. Gaynor, Haughwout building, New York, 1859

4. Compare:
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Academy
of Architecture, Berlin (1831-1836)

5. William Le Baron Jenney, 2nd Leiter Building, Chicago 1889-91

6. Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, Auditorium Building,
Chicago 1887-89

7. Sullivan, Adler, Guaranty Building,
Buffalo 1894

8. David Burnham,
Reliance Building,
Chicago 1894

9. Sullivan, Carson-Pirie-Scott Store,
Chicago 1899-1904

10. Carson-Pirie-Scott-Store, Chicago

11. Compare:
H. Stadler, A. Usteri, warehouse Jelmoli, Zürich 1899-1901

12. David Burnham,
Flatiron building,
New York 1902

13. Louis Sullivan, National Farmers‘ bank, Owatonna, Minnesota 1907