J.M. Brunswick and Balke Company Lumber Dryer, Chicago, Illinois
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
c. 1883
Medium
Black and red ink on linen
Dimensions
Various
Classification
architectural drawing
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
73584
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Adler & Sullivan, Architects · 1883–1896
Adler & Sullivan was the Chicago architectural partnership that laid the conceptual and structural foundations for the modern American skyscraper. Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), a German-born engineer celebrated for his mastery of building acoustics and structural systems, hired Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) in 1879; the two became full partners in 1883. Sullivan had trained at the Massachusetts Institut...