Publisher: Ballantine Books New York

Edition: First Edition

Year: 1987

Description: VF, 544 pp.; First Ballantine Book Edition: November 1988 (stated); biography of America's most famous architect written by Brendan Gill a New Yorker writer of fifty years and a graduate of Yale University.; the book is richly illustrated with many photographs. The one photograph I chose to highlight is a design for the Civic Center in Marin County California.  The architecture and opening of that building sparked the interest of a city manager in the town of Fairfield CA who was inspired to get a new City Hall built.  An architecture competition was held and a design was selected, over 50 years later what came from that is the City Hall in Fairfield CA.

Author: Brendan Gill