Revised 24th Street Elevation for Standard Club, Chicago, Illinois, Details and Sections
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
09/19/1887
Medium
Graphite and ink on linen
Dimensions
64.7 × 137.5 cm (25 7/16 × 54 1/8 in.)
Classification
architectural working drawing
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136921
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...