CONTENTS FOREWORD Joan Ockman VII PREFACE Mardges Bacon x 1 INTRODUCTION Mardges Bacon PART I. AMERICAN HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE 55 Two Temperaments in History: Scientific and Literary (1951) 71 American Architecture Between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983) 81Four Approaches to Regionalism in the Visual Arts of the 1930s (1977) 103 The Tennessee Valley Authority: Lessons for the Present and Future (1993) 127 Fiasco at Willow Run (1943) PART II. THE ARC OF EUROPEAN MODERNISM 135 The Symbolic Essence of Modern European Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence (1963) 151 The International Style in the 1930s (1965) 159 I Am Alone: Le Corbusier, Bathrooms, and Airplanes (1983) 171 William Lescaze Reconsidered (1984) 187 The Aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968) PART III. THE HISTORIAN AS CRITIC: FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AFTER 1945 227 Seagram Assessed (1958) 235 Medical Research Building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961) 247 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974) 261Robert Venturi and the Decorated Shed (1985) 277 Bank of China Tower (1991) 294 Selected Bibliography of Writings by William H. Jordy 303 Index