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Dr. Margaret Herman

About Dr. Margaret Herman

Dr. Margaret Herman earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she specialized in early twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. She holds an M.A. from Queens College, and has taught courses in art and architectural history at City College, Parsons, and Montclair State University.

Detail of terracotta exterior with "Chicago" windows at right, Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building, 1899 and 1903-04, Chicago (photo: Kevin Zolkiewicz, CC: BY-NC-SA 2.0) — Sullivan believed that “form must ever follow function” and designed this department store with that adage in mind.

An early skyscraper

by Dr. Margaret Herman

"Study for Woolworth Building, New York" by Cass Gilbert, December 10, 1910 (Public domain, Wikimedia commons) — Advanced steel-frame construction techniques enabled this to be the world’s tallest building from 1913 to 1930.

Cass Gilbert, Woolworth Building

by Dr. Margaret Herman

Detail of terracotta exterior with "Chicago" windows at right, Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building, 1899 and 1903-04, Chicago (photo: Kevin Zolkiewicz, CC: BY-NC-SA 2.0) — Sullivan believed that “form must ever follow function” and designed this department store with that adage in mind.

Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building

by Dr. Margaret Herman