American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: “Form follows function.” That adage is also vital to data center ...

[W]hat is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? And at once we answer, it is lofty. soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single ...

U.S. architect Louis Sullivan, known as the father of the skyscraper, coined the phrase “form ever follows function” in his 1896 essay, “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered.” His argument ...