Who is the US father of skyscrapers?

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a father of skyscrapers and father of modernism. He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be ...



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One of the best examples of the world's first skyscrapers, built around 2,500 years ago, can be seen in Yemen's capital, Sanaa. It is possible to see six-to-seven-story skyscrapers in Sanaa and 10-to-12-story edifices in the Hadramut and Shibam regions.

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China. With a whopping 3090 skyscrapers that are over 150 metres tall, China occupies the first position in this list.

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The earliest stage of skyscraper design encompasses buildings built between 1884 and 1945, predominantly in the American cities of New York and Chicago.

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Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper. The Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885, is regarded as the world's first skyscraper. This building used the steel-frame method, innovated in Chicago. It was originally built with 10 stories, an enormous height in the 1800s, to a height of 138 feet (42 m).

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