Volume 34, Number 1 · January 29, 1987
The Master Builder
By Martin Filler
Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work
by Robert Twombly
Viking/Elisabeth Sifton Books, 530 pp., $29.95
The Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank
by Larry Millett
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 203 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament
by David Van Zanten, by William Jordy, by Wim de Wit, by Rochelle Elstein
Norton, 224 pp., $35.00
Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture: The Present against the Past
by David S. Andrew
University of Illinois Press, 199 pp., $19.95
The present state of American architecture, caught between the rejection of an outmoded Modernism and the as yet unconvincing products of an emergent Postmodernism, might well be summed up as follows:
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