Louis Sullivan’s Ideas & Art of Expression with Sherri T @ Comprehensivist Weds
Details
Architect Sherri Tracinski and Shrikant will be discussing life and ideas of Louis Sullivan and then focusing on his concept of “Art of Expression” and “Form Follows Function”
- Sherri gives overview of Louis Sullivan’s life & work + Q&A
- Shrikant on Louis Sullivan’s ideas (read blog posts below) + Q&A
- Sherri on how Sullivan applies his ideas (read “Tall Office Building... below) + Q&A
- Shrikant on applying Sullivan’s ideas to structure of these Meetups
- General Q&A
- Audience 2 Minute Take aways from everyone.
Please read Sullivan’s ideas on Art of Expression presented in the six blog posts by Shrikant, which are condensed and edited from Sullivan’s Book Kindergarten Chats.
Get your copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Kindergarten-Chats-Other-Writings-Revised/dp/1614275858
Or see free online version here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156485/page/n33/mode/2up
Art of Expression: Introduction
https://shrikantrangnekar.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/louis-sullivan-the-art-of-expression-one/
Cultivating Art of Expression
https://shrikantrangnekar.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/louis-sullivan-kindergraten-chats-art-of-expression-2/
Universal Art of Expression
https://shrikantrangnekar.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/louis-sullivan-kindergarten-chats-the-art-of-expression-5-towards-an-universal-art-of-expression/
Problem Contains it’s Own Solutiom
https://shrikantrangnekar.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/louis-sullivan-kindergarten-chats-the-art-of-expression-5-each-problem-contains-its-own-solution/
This is Louis Sullivan’s masterpiece in its entirety— it is the “Father of Skyscraper” explaining the birthing process.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered by Louis Sullivan
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-205-analysis-of-contemporary-architecture-fall-2009/readings/MIT4_205F09_Sullivan.pdf
Reading is not required but highly recommended.
****
Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant
Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ
Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of being a Comprehensivist
Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela
Aug 26: Art Education: Individual & Society with Karen
Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay
Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
Sep 16: Literature and our lives: the Fiction of Relationship
Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant
See the calendar at https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/
A Meetup Every Day, Every Week, For Everyone!
Every Weekday at 9pm ET; On Weekends at 2:30pm ET
We record all our Meetups and post them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch Past Meetups at: https://www.youtube.com/c/52LivingIdeas?sub_confirmation=1