For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856a 1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices a literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic a and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic...
For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856a 1924) and the majority of his th...
