Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois, Ornamental Plaster Work, Pilaster Details
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
c. 1887
Medium
Hectograph print on paper mounted on board
Dimensions
66 × 101.4 cm (26 × 39 15/16 in.)
Classification
architectural drawing
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
72089
About the Artist
Adler & Sullivan, Architects · 1883–1896
Adler & Sullivan was the Chicago architectural partnership that laid the conceptual and structural foundations for the modern American skyscraper. Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), a German-born engineer celebrated for his mastery of building acoustics and structural systems, hired Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) in 1879; the two became full partners in 1883. Sullivan had trained at the Massachusetts Institut...