KINDERGARTEN CHATS
ON ARCHITECTURE, EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
Louis H. Sullivan
Louis H. Sullivan, Claude F. Bragdon ( Editor and introduction): KINDERGARTEN CHATS ON ARCHITECTURE, EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY. Washington, D.C.: Scarab Fraternity Press, 1934. First edition (stated). Octavo. A very good to near-fine hardcover book bound in full, decorated cloth in a very good dust jacket: DJ is sun-faded to spine (to be expected for a jacket of a coated orange sheet printed with blue ink) and lightly soiled, with a trace of edgewear. An exceptional copy of a truly rare title in dust jacket. 6.5 x 9.75 book with 256 pages and frontis and 5 plates. Edited and introduced by Claude F. Bragdon. First Edition of Sullivans essays, first published in an architectural trade journal at the turn of the century. In his introduction, Bragdon wrote that Sullivan is the spiritual father of everything sound and good which is being done, under whatever banner, in American architecture.
American architect Louis Henry Sullivan (1856 1924) was called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, and was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright. Sullivan is credited with coining the phrase "form follows function," the great battle-cry of modernist architects.
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