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Why did Frank Lloyd Wright leave the Adler and Sullivan firm in 1893?
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Louis Sullivan, detail of an oil painting by Frank A. Werner, 1919; in the collection of the Chicago Historical Society.
Frank Lloyd Wright left the firm of Adler and Sullivan in 1893 following a quarrel with Louis Sullivan. Following this departure, Wright established his own independent architectural practice. Although the two men experienced a period of estrangement, their friendship was eventually renewed in 1914, and Wright consistently acknowledged the significant influence Sullivan had on his own architectural ideas and development.12