Candace Wheeler, The Dream City, Harpers New Monthly Magazine,
1893: Unlike any city which ever existed in substance, this one has
been built all at once, by one impulse, at one period, at one stage
of knowledge and arts, by men almost equally prominent and equally
developed in power. The whole thing seems to have sprung into being
fully conceived and perfectly planned without progressive
development or widening of scope. Some one, considering not only
the celerity with which this fairy spectacle was created, has
called it a sketch; but it is not even than, for a sketch has at
least a chance of preservation. It is a dream which will vanish
when the purpose which called it into being is fulfilled. It is
foredoomed to evanishment.
Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1890 (KEY
WORK)
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Louis Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically
Considered, 1896: The architects of this land and generation are
now brought face to face with something new under the sun namely,
that evolution and integration of social conditions, that special
grouping of them, that results in a demand for the erection of tall
office buildings.
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Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1890 (KEY WORK)
Louis Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered,
1896: It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and
all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of
the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its
expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.