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Louis Sullivan’s Idea by Tim Samuelson and Chris Ware (Review)

By Timothy Sandefur

Dec 16, 2021
∙ Paid

Chicago: Alphawood Exhibitions, 2021
384 pp. $45 (hardcover)

On the night the Chicago Auditorium was dedicated in 1889, none of the dignitaries who spoke to the overflow crowd—which included the president and vice president of the United States—mentioned its architect, thirty-three-year-old Louis H. Sullivan. The ornate theater was an astounding feat of t…

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