Introduction: Architecture of the 1960's: Hopes and Fears PART I: HISTORY A PART OF LIFE Introduction The Historian's Relation to His Age The Demand for Continuity Contemporary History The Identity of Methods Transitory and Constituent Facts Architecture as an Organism Procedure Part II: OUR ARCHITECTURAL INHERITANCE The New Space Conception: Perspective Perspective and Urbanism Prerequisites for the Growth of Cities The Star-Shaped City Perspective and the Constituent Elements of the City The Wall, the Square, and the Street Bramante and the Open Stairway Michelangelo and the Modeling of Outer Space What Is the Real Significance of the Area Capitolina? Leonardo da Vinci and the Dawn of Regional Planning Sixtus V (1585-1590) and the Planning of Baroque Rome The Medieval and the Renaissance City Sixtus V and His Pontificate The Master Plan The Social Aspect The Late Baroque The Undulating Wall and the Flexible Ground Plan Francesco Borromini, 1599-1667 Guarino Guarini, 1624-1683 South Germany: Vierzehnheiligen The Organization of Outer Space The Residential Group and Nature Single Squares Series of Interrelated Squares Part III: THE EVOLUTION OF NEW POTENTIALITIES Industrialization as a Fundamental Event Iron Early Iron Construction in England The Sunderland Bridge Early Iron Construction on the Continent From the Iron Column to the Steel Frame The Cast-Iron Column Toward the Steel Frame James Bogardus The St. Louis River Front Early Skeleton Buildings Elevators The Schism Between Architecture and Technology Discussions École Polytechnique: the Connection between Science and Life The Demand for a New Architecture The Interrelations of Architecture and Engineering Henri Labrouste, Architect Constructor, 1801-1875 New Building Problems--New Solutions Market Halls Department Stores The Great Exhibitions The Great Exhibition, London, 1851 The Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1855 Paris Exhibition of 1867 Paris Exhibition of 1878 Paris Exhibition of 1889 Chicago, 1893 Gustave Eiffel and His Tower PART IV: THE DEMAND FOR MORALITY IN ARCHITECTURE The Nineties: Precursors of Contemporary Architecture Brussels the Center of Contemporary Art, 1880-1890 Victor Horta's Contribution Berlage's Stock Exchange and the Demand for Morality Otto Wagner and the Viennese School Ferroconcrete and its Influence upon Architecture A. C. Perret Tony Gamier Part V: AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT Europe Observes American Production The Structure of American Industry The Balloon Frame and Industrialization The Balloon Frame and the Building-up of the West The Invention of the Balloon Frame George Washington Snow, 1797-1870 The Balloon Frame and the Windsor Chair Plane Surfaces in American Architecture The Flexible and Informal Ground Plan THE CHICAGO SCHOOL The Apartment House Toward Pure Forms The.