Louis Sullivan (1856 to 1924): Applied organic, plant-like terra cotta and iron ornament to early skyscraper design, bridging functionalism and natural form. When a bank director was considering hiring him but hesitated because other architects had bid lower for a conventional classical design, Sullivan is said to have replied: “A thousand architects could design those buildings. Only I can design this one.” He got the commission. He is also the source of the famous motto “form ever follows function.”

The info about ROCOCO SCULPTORS is from GROK. Images credit to many sites. Rococo sculpture was an 18th-century art style characterized by theatricality, sensuality, asymmetry, scrolling curves, and dynamic movement. Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791) was a prominent French sculptor known for graceful, light-hearted, and mythological works. When Catherine II of Russia gave him the honorific title roughly meaning “Your Highborn”, the self-made sculptor, from a poor artisan family, replied that it suited him perfectly because he was born in an attic.

Claude Michel, known as Clodion (1738–1814): A French sculptor famous for intimate, sensual terracotta reliefs and statuettes depicting nymphs, satyrs, and bacchantes. Catherine the Great tried to lure him to Russia (as she had with Falconet and others), but he turned her down and went back to Paris instead.

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann(1662–1736): Architect of the Zwinger palace in Dresden, Germany. He helped turn Dresden into one of the great Baroque cities of Europe.