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This event is co-sponsored by Preservation Buffalo-Niagara. Louis H. Sullivan was one of the most influential architects to come out of the Chicago School of architecture in the late 1800s. He is often called the “father of the skyscraper”, the “prophet of modern architecture” and conceived the most famous phrase ever to come out of his profession, “form follows function” (or, more accurately, “form ever follows function”). Among his most outstanding surviving works are the Auditorium Theater, the Carson, Pirie Scott department store, and the Charnley House in Chicago, the Wainwright Building and Union Trust Building in St. Louis, the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York. He died penniless and forgotten in 1924. This spectacular, not to be missed documentary, tells his story for the first time. Filmmaker Mark Richard Smith will introduce the film in person. Movie Website: http://www.louissullivanfilm.com/