Other editions of book Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings

This antiquarian book contains a collection of musings, or ''chats'', pertaining to architecture, art, education, and society in general, written by one of America's most original and seminal architects, Louis H. Sullivan. This interesting and thought-provoking treatise will appeal to those with a keen enthusiasm for architecture and its development, and it is a veritable must-read for anyone with an interest in the life and mind of this most prodigious architect. The chapters of this book include: Louis Sullivan, Biographical Note, Bibliography of Writings, A Building With A Tower, Pathology, A Terminal Station, The Garden, An Oasis, The Key, Values, A Roman Temple, A Department Store, Function and Form... and more. This vintage work is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Louis Henry Sullivan was one of the foremost American architects, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Henry Hobson Richardson and Wright, Sullivan is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture". This collection of his writings includes other essays in additional to the book length "Kindergarten Chats." The are: Characteristics and Tendencies of American Architecture What is the Just Subordination, in Architectural Design, of Details to Mass? Ornament in Architecture Emotional Architecture as Compared to Intellectual The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered The Young Man in Architecture Education What is Architecture: A Study in the American People of Today

"So remember, and bear ever in mind in your thinking and your doings, that FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION, that this is the law — a universal truth."One of the foremost exponents of form-and-function architecture, and considered by many to be the father of the modern skyscraper, Louis Henri Sullivan (1856–1924) was one of America's most original and influential architects, and an extraordinarily important writer on the nature and function of architecture. Known for his many commercial buildings — Auditorium Building in Chicago (1889), Wainwright Building in St. Louis (1891), Prudential Building in Buffalo (1895), and Carson, Pirie and Scott Building in Chicago (1899 & 1903) — Sullivan is equally admired today for his two major books: The Autobiography of an Idea and Kindergarten Chats.In this creative, seminal work, his theories about architecture, art, education, and life in general are presented in the form of dialogues, or "chats," between an architect and a novice. Sullivan's contempt for 19th-century eclectic architecture ("That the bulk of our architecture is rotten to the core, is a statement which does not admit of one solitary doubt"), his striving for a more functional approach, and his theory of the skyscraper are just a few of the principles and insights that emerge in these pages. As the architect and writer Claude Bragdon has remarked: "Kindergarten Chats remains in my memory as one of the most provocative, amusing, astounding, inspiring things that I have ever read."This edition is the first low-priced reprint of the 1918 definitive edition of Kindergarten Chats, which was personally revised by Sullivan himself, who rewrote those chapters and generally streamlined the argument of the original version. Eight additional papers, covering the years 1885–1906, supplement the basic text: they include "Ornament in Architecture," "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered," "The Young Man in Architecture," and "What is Architecture?" Architecture students, architects, artists, educators, and readers who enjoy the stimulus of a lively and iconoclastic mind will all be attracted by the magnetic power of this bold, thought-provoking book.

This antiquarian book contains a collection of musings, or ''chats'', pertaining to architecture, art, education, and society in general, written by one of America's most original and seminal architects, Louis H. Sullivan. This interesting and thought-provoking treatise will appeal to those with a keen enthusiasm for architecture and its development, and it is a veritable must-read for anyone with an interest in the life and mind of this most prodigious architect. The chapters of this book include: Louis Sullivan, Biographical Note, Bibliography of Writings, A Building With A Tower, Pathology, A Terminal Station, The Garden, An Oasis, The Key, Values, A Roman Temple, A Department Store, Function and Form... and more. This vintage work is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.