J.M. Brunswick and Balke Company Lumber Dryer, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Section
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
c. 1883
Medium
Black and red ink on linen
Dimensions
56 × 101.5 cm (22 1/16 × 40 in.)
Classification
architectural working drawing
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
135425
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...