Modern Architecture and Other Essays

Acknowledgments 6(2) Introduction 8(4) A Biographical Sketch 12(22) Vincent Scully American Villas: Inventiveness in the American Suburb from Downing to Wright 34(20) Wright vs. the International Style 54(10) Archetype and Order in Recent American Architecture 64(10) Modern Architecture: Toward a Redefinition of Style 74(14) The Nature of the Classical in Art 88(18) Frank Lloyd Wright and Twentieth-Century Style 106(14) The Death of the Street 120(8) Doldrums in the Suburbs 128(14) RIBA Discourse 1969: A Search for Principle between Two Wars 142(16) Where Is Modern Architecture Going? 158(12) Frank Lloyd Wright and the Stuff of Dreams 170(28) Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting: Environment, Act, and Illusion 198(38) Le Corbusier, 1922--1965 236(14) Introduction to The Louis I. Kahn Archive: Personal Drawings 250(10) Robert Venturi's Gentle Architecture 260(22) Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade 282(16) Louis I. Kahn and the Ruins of Rome 298(22) Everybody Needs Everything 320(20) The Architecture of Community 340(18) America at the Millennium: Architecture and Community 358(10) Bibliography of Vincent Scully's Writings 368(16) Index 384(14) Text and Photography Credits 398