About a year before he died, Louis Sullivan, the venerable Chicago architect who was instrumental in the development of the modern American skyscraper, took as his subject the most famous of American skyscraper competitions: the Chicago Tribune Competition. Sullivan was less than pleased with the ordering of the top two prize winners, and in his vaguely Jamesian prose, he attacks what he sees as the silliness of the winning entry, by Howells and Hood, and sings the praises of the second-place entry, a soaring tower by Eliel Saarinen.
Kevin Lerner
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