America's Greatest Development In Architecture

I believe that Chapter 18 in the textbook covers the many different objects that were being invented in the years of 1840 to the year of 1910, and their influence on art. This was the era that brought the world the telephone, the radio, and showed the many different aspects of the ability of the camera. During this era, Romanticism was greatly rejected for many other art forms, such as Impressionism. However, I believe that the field that had the greatest development in this era was architecture. In architecture, the abundance of new technology led to abandoning the use of any historicizing decorative overlay, and it also led to an emphasis in the structure of buildings. Also, in this era engineers, rather than architects, were the ones to use different

This era was not only great for architects and engineers, but it was also a time for artists to bring in new ideas and invent new art forms.
One of my favorite works of art in this chapter, was the Wainwright Building (FIG. 18-4). This building is located in St. Louis, Missouri and is built by Louis Sullivan. This building is an early example of the work of “Chicago School” style, or an early skyscraper. The “Chicago School” was a group of young Midwestern architects who wished to escape from Beaux-Arts historicism, and therefore created a new type of building – the skyscraper. Louis Sullivan built this building by adapting the very basic rules of the Beaux-Arts tradition. He did so by dividing the ten story building into three main parts; the base, body, and crowning cornice. This building is