“Review of *The Idea of Louis Sullivan*, by John Szarkowski”

AboutA brief 1957 review by Paul Zucker of John Szarkowski's photographic anthology *The Idea of Louis Sullivan*, paired in the same journal issue with a review of Eduard Sekler's book on Christopher Wren. Zucker frames Sullivan's influence on modern American architecture as resting more on the rhetorical force of his aesthetic writings ("form follows function," *Kindergarten Chats*, *The Autobiography of an Idea*) than on his relatively small built oeuvre, and credits Szarkowski's documentary photographs, paired with contemporary quotations from figures including Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Adams, and Thorstein Veblen, with restoring the architect's major buildings to view without competing with Hugh Morrison's earlier biography.

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