Original 1.Ed. Louis Sullivan Complete A System of Architectural Ornament 1924

Description: MAKE AN OFFER IF PRICE SEEMS TOO HIGH. THIS IS MY SECOND COPY, THIS ONE DESERVES FINDING A NEW CARETAKER. YOU ARE BEING OFFERED: an ORIGINAL AND COMPLETE book of Louis Henri Sullivan, A System of Architectural Ornament According With A Philosophy of Man's Powers, New York Press of the American Institute of Architects, Inc., 1924 This is the one of the greatest books of Architecture produced in the 20th Century by one of America's greatest Architects. There were only 1,000 copies of this book recorded to have been published in 1924. Original complete copies are very difficult and rare to find.SIZE: 20 1/4" x 14 1/4" x 7/16" hard cover, 20 plates on semigloss paper, plus 14 pages with ruff cut edge, plus 3 blank pages. Please see photos CONDITION: good for a copy of this book. Wear as expected for a book of this size and age, including some staining to cover. Front two blank pages and one blank page as last page have crease. The binding is tight but inside at spine the paper show wear from age and use. Please see photos. Inside front cover is a signature by the Cincinnati Architect Standish Meacham.This was Louis Sullivan's last published book that stands as a testament to one of the 20th Century's greatest Architects. The work was commissioned by the Chicago Art Institute’s Burnham Library of Architecture and produced by the Sullivan in 1922 and 1923, published in 1924. The drawings provide a rare glimpse of Sullivan’s interpretation of the philosophical principles of ornament and relationship to architecture and the natural world. Sullivan believed, the architect could establish an organic connection between the practical and rational aspects of building design by demonstrating the underlying similarities between the simple geometries of science and the curvilinear configurations of nature.Louis Sullivan (b. Boston, Massachusetts 1856; d. Chicago, Illinois 1924) studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year. He then worked as a draughtsman for Furness and Hewitt in Philadelphia and for William Le Baron Jenney in Chicago. In July 1874 Sullivan travelled to Europe where he studied in the Vaudremer studio at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He returned to Chicago a year later.In 1883 Sullivan became a full partner with Dankmar Adler. They remained together until 1895 when Adler retired. Although Sullivan was usually viewed as the designer being backed by Adler's engineering skills, Adler's work showed an individual strength that has often been ignored. A notable designer who moved up within the office, eventually going out on his own, was Frank Lloyd Wright.Sullivan's designs generally involved a simple geometric form decorated with ornamentation based on organic symbolism. As an organizer and formal theorist on aesthetics, he propounded an architecture that exhibited the spirit of the time and needs of the people. Considered one of the most influential forces in the Chicago School, his philosophy that form should always follow function went beyond functional and structural expressions.Considered the "Dean of American Architects", Sullivan died in Chicago, Illinois 1924 shortly after The Autobiography of an Idea and A System of Architectural Ornament were published.Standish Meacham Architect Cincinnati (1889-1949) After graduation from Yale (1913) and varied activities including service in World War I and Cincinnati civic reform (he worked for the YMCA), Meacham returned to the Yale School of Fine Arts (1928). Listed on own 1929-1930; with his father-in-law, (Walter Louis) Rapp & Meacham 1931-1958. His Society of Beaux-Arts “second medal” was for a model housing project intended for the then-slum-cluttered slopes of Mt. Adams. A fine designer of exclusively Traditional houses, especially in the Colonial Revival; he deliberately varied residential designs according to scale and type, but with consistent high-quality detail, according to a posthumous monograph/album. Designed Dr. William and Mrs. Louise Taft Semple estate, "Mt. Olympus," Given Rd., Indian Hill (1925), which is said to have incorporated an important early stone house as well as elements from the Charles P. and Anna Sinton Taft family residence on Pike Street in downtown Cincinnati (became the Taft Museum ca. 1930). Meacham designed the Krohn Conservatory in 1932, additions to LeBlond Machine Tool Company in 1936, G.A. Gray Co. plant remodeling, and Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. project, however his work was mostly residential projects. He was a member of the Cincinnati chapter of the AIA and also served as president.In 1972 I published the American Terra Cotta Index and in currently in the process of process of preparing for publication an interview done 40 years ago with the last superintendent of Terra Cotta of the American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Company who knew and worked with Louis Sullivan from 1914 until Sullivan's death in 1924. Information on that work and more can be found on my web site at: www.MidlandTerraCotta.Wordpress.com TERMS OF SALEGENERAL: We try very hard to please our customers. Please contact us if you have questions.EMAIL: Any questions, please email. We try responding to email within 24 hours, excluding holidays and weekends. If you do not receive a timely reply, please try again. Sometimes, due to no fault of anyone, email can get lost.RETURNS: Sales are considered final. If the listing is not accurate, wrong item was sent, parts are missing etc. we will work with you to resolve the issue. 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