Sullivan's autobiography relates to his idea of "democratic" architecture (i.e., an architecture based on a transcendentalist notion of utopia). Fol- lowing the notions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Frederich Froebel amplified, Sullivan believed that a proper development of the instincts during child- hood would produce a correct attitude toward nature in adulthood. Since he considered himself fortunate that many people helped him to develop a proper personality, he offered his early life as a case study. Three-quarters of the book explains how experiences that occurred before he was 23, when he went to work for Dankmar Adler, his future part- ner, shaped his notion of a relationship of architecture and nature.
This work first appeared as a serial in the Journal ofthe American Institute of Architects (1922-1923) and has been published in book form three other times: by Norton (1934), Peter Smith (r949) and Dover (1956), the latter with numerous reprints.
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