“Where function does not change form does not change.”

— Louis Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered, Lippincott's Magazine (March 1896)

About Louis Sullivan

1856 – 1924

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

“To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.”

“Yet evidently the true object of education, now as ever, is to develop the capabilities of the head and of the heart.”

“We must now heed the imperative voice of emotion.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.”

“All progress means war with Society.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”