The document discusses Louis Sullivan's architectural philosophy, emphasizing the principle of 'form follows function' and its application in the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri. It details the building's design elements, including its Chicago School style, use of materials like steel frames and ornamental masonry, and structural features such as vertical ornamentation representing a column. Additionally, it highlights the geometric organic ornamentation and specific architectural components like the cornice and frieze.

2. • Form Follows Function
• Ornamentation Style- Geometric Organic
• Materials: Steel Frames And Cladded Ornamental Masonry
LOUIS SULLIVAN ,
the father of modern architecture

3. The Wainwright building
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Client: Ellis Wainwright, St. Louis brewers
association
Designed by: Adler and Sullivan
Built:1891
Style: Chicago School

4. • 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

5. 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

6. 2: Material:
• Steel frames
• Brown sandstone
• (first two stories)
• Cladded ornamental masonry-
terracotta

7. CONCEPT 3:GEOMETRIC ORGANIC ORNAMENTATION:
BELOW WINDOWS
ON PIERS
ENTRANCE
AT THE TOP

8. DRAWINGS
CAST IRON
ORNMENTATION
OTHER WORKS OF
ORNAMENTATION

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