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Foreword -- Introductory interview with Philip Johnson -- ANCIENT ROOTS: Washington monument, Washington, D.C / Thomas L. Casey -- Home Insurance building, Chicago / William Le Baron Jenney -- Eiffel Tower, Paris / Gustave Eiffel -- Ulm Cathedral, Ulm, Germany / Mathaus Boblinger -- Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri / Louis Sullivan -- Reliance Building, Chicago / Burnham and Company -- Flatiron(Fuller) Building, New York City / Daniel H. Burnham -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, New York City / Napoleon LeBrun & Sons -- Woolworth Building, New York City / Cass Gilbert -- Tribune Tower, Chicago / Raymond Hood and John M. Howells -- Growth of a City: New York -- Barclay-Vesey Building, New York / McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin -- Chrysler Building, New York City / William van Alen -- Empire State Building, New York City / Shreve, Lamb & Harmon -- PSFS Building, Philadelphia / George Howe and William Lescaze -- Rockefeller Center, New York City / Reinhard and Hofmeister; Corbett Harrison and MacMurray; Hood and Fouilhoux -- Lever House, New York City / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- Alcoa Building, Pittsburg / Harrison and Abramovitz -- Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Seagram Building, New York City / Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson -- Pirelli Tower, Milan / Gio Ponti with Pier Luigi Nervi -- MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY: Pan Am Building, New York City/ Emery Roth & Sons, Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi -- Marina City, Chicago / Bertrand Goldberg -- Lake Point Tower, Chicago / Schipporeit-Heinrich Associates -- John Hancock Center, Chicago / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco / William L. Pereira -- World Trade Center, New York City / Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth & Sons -- Sears Tower, Chicago / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- John Hancock Tower, Boston / I.M. Peio & Partners -- United Nations Plaza Hotel, New York City / Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates -- Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta / John Portman & Associates -- TOWERS: Citicorp Center, New York / The Stubbins Associates -- 333 Wacker Drive, Chicago / Kohn Pederson Fox Associates -- National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- AT&T Headquarters, New York City / Johnson/Burgee Architects -- Nations Bank Center, Houston / Johnson/Burgee Architects -- Rialto Towers, Melbourne, Australia / Gerard de Preu and Partners -- First Interstate Bank Tower, Dallas / I.M. Pei & Partners -- Lipstick Building, New York City / Johnson/Burgee Architects -- OUB Centre, Singapore / Kenzo Tange Associates -- Maybank Headquarters, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Hijjas Kasturi Associates -- VISIONARY CITIES: First Interstate Bank World Center, Los Angeles / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners -- Messeturm, Frankfurt / Murphy/ Jahn -- Bank of China, Hong Kong / I.M. Pei & Partners -- Canary Wharf Tower, London / Cesar Pelli & Associates -- Tokyo City Hall Complex, Tokyo / Kenzo Tange Associates -- DG Bank Headquarters, Frankfurt / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates -- Landmark Tower, Yokohama, Japan / The Stubbins Associates --Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Cesar Pelli & Associates -- Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, China / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- Kuningan Persada Tower, Jakarta, Indonesia / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- One hundred tallest buildings. |