Foreword / Peter Q. Bohlin
2. Beginnings of American Architecture
3. Early History: Two Colonies, Two Capitals
4. William Buckiand: The First American Architect
5. The Search for an American Architecture, Thomas Jefferson, a Romantic Rationalist, North and South
6. Boston, the Cradle of Invention / Henry Hobson Richardson
7. Philadelphia, the Generator of Institutions / Frank Furness
8. Chicago, the Prairie Innovations, Louis Sullivan / Frank Lloyd Wright
9. Pasadena and the Railroad Hotel, the Western Legacy of Greene and Greene
10. San Francisco, Berkeley and the Gold Rush / Bernard Maybeck
11. Tulsa, Oil and Cattle, Bruce Goff
12. Detroit, the Economic Engine, the Automobile / Eero Sarrinen
13. Los Angeles and the Birth of the Film Industry, Rudolph Schindler, the Beginnings of Abstract Modernism / Mies van der Rohe
14. Philadelphia, the Philadelphia School, the Emergence of the Intellectual Revolution / Louis I. Kahn / Romaldo Giurgola / Robert Venturi
15. The International Style, The Americans / Kevin Roche / John Dinkeloo / I. M. Pei / Philip Johnson
16. The New York Five, "the Whites," The Ultramodemists and Their Conversion, Richard Meier / Michael Graves
17. Architects Out of Context / Charles Moore / Robert A. M. Stern / Peter Bohlin / James Polshek / Antoine Predock / Cesar Pelli
18. Global Architecture and the Architecture of the Bizarre, The Tech-Fantasticism Movement, Eric Owen Moss / Frank Gehry
19. On the Brink / Kieran Timberlake / Steven Holl / Tod Williams Billie Tsien
20. Observations on History and the Future, The American Spirit
