Louis Sullivan: the Struggle for American Architecture

Synopsis

The award-winning feature-length documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924). Known by historians as the 'father of the skyscraper' and creator of the iconic phrase 'form follows function,' Sullivan was on top of his profession in 1890. Then a series of setbacks plunged him into destitute obscurity from which he never recovered. Yet his persistent belief in the power of his ideas created some of America's most beautiful buildings ever created, and inspired Sullivan's protégé, Frank Lloyd Wright, to fulfill his own dream of a truly American style of architecture.

Main Cast

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Louis Sullivan (voice)

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Mark Richard Smith

Narrator

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Mark Richard Smith
Sound	Music	Michael T. McLean
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