“Review of *The Testament of Stone: Themes of Idealism and Indignation from the Writings of Louis Sullivan*, edited by Maurice English, and *Louis Sullivan: An Architect in American Thought*, by Sherman Paul”

AboutA joint review reading Maurice English's anthology of Sullivan's writings and Sherman Paul's critical study together as complementary halves of a single project — primary text paired with scholarly analysis. Winkelhake, writing from an aesthetic-education standpoint, highlights Sullivan's 1894 essay "Emotional Architecture as Compared with Intellectual" and his 1900 "The Young Man in Architecture" (in which Sullivan calls beginning an architect's education with a book "an intellectual crime") as evidence of Sullivan's belief that architectural education should be rooted in direct, embodied experience of natural and social conditions rather than abstract study, tracing this position back to Emersonian ideas of the building as "spiritual form." The review frames both English and Paul as indebted to the Burnham Library's Sullivan holdings, and Sullivan himself as making possible a fuller understanding of the relationship between architecture, democracy, and nature in this period.

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