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Scrutinizes the skyscraper as art, as business, and as the product of politics and speculation, surveying its history and its probable future developments
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"[Huxtable's] clear, sharp prose penetrates the haze of bad excuses, good intentions and absurd ideologies in which so many bad decisions about the shape of the world are hatched. . . . Since Lewis Mumford stopped writing about the subject, Huxtable has been our strongest voice on both the aesthetics and the ethics of our surroundings."--Thomas Hine, "Philadelphia Inquirer
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Ada Louise Huxtable was architecture critic at the New York Times from 1963 to 1982. Among the books she has written are Classical New York and Pier Luigi Nervi.
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