Chattanooga Hotel Project, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Elevation
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
c. 1892–1893
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
22 × 45.5 cm (8 11/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
architecture
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
141933
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...