Get to know the “Father of the Skyscraper” in this companion film to Natalie Ribkoff’s Curious Minds series on Chicago Architecture. At the turn of the 19th century, visionary architect Louis Sullivan created rhapsodies in steel, iron and brick. His early high-rise buildings, which included the Sullivan Center and the Wainwright Building, were both awe-inspiring and functional. In Tall, director Manfred Kirchheimer crafts a lively account of Sullivan, his rival Daniel Burnham and the other architects who gave rise to the modern skyscraper: a technological and aesthetic wonder that would change city life and our world’s skylines forever.