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“The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity.”

— Louis Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats (1918), Ch. 10: A Roman Temple

About Louis Sullivan

1856 – 1924

American architect, known as the "father of skyscrapers".

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