Standard Club Addition and Alterations, Elevations
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
02/21/1892
Medium
Black and red ink on draughting linen
Dimensions
53 × 41.5 cm (20 7/8 × 16 3/8 in.)
Classification
architectural working drawing
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136926
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...