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Rockefeller Center
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company - 1978

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These essays have been edited from their published versions

Table of Contents::

ONE
A METROPOLITAN SQUARE
The Metopolitan Opera
Columbia University
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
John R. Todd
The Metropolitan Square Corporation
General Electric and the Radio Corporation of America

TWO
THE ARCHITECTS AND THE BUILDINGS
The Associated Architects
Theories and Attitudes
Organization
Design Studies
The RCA Building
The Plaza
The International Buildings
The Gardens
After 1935
PHOTOESSAY 1 The Buildings

THREE
THE THEATERS
Radio City Music Hall
The Center Theater
Theater Decoration
PHOTOESSAY 2 The Theaters

FOUR
ART
Themes
The Artists
PHOTOESSAY 3 The Art
Diego Rivera

FIVE
INTENTIONS
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Raymond Hood

SIX
INTERPRETATIONS
Ralph Adams Cram
Lewis Mumford
Le Corbusier
Frederic Lewis Allen
Sigfried Gledlon
Henry R. Luce
Lewis Mumford, 1940-1950
The 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s

SEVEN
TRANSFORMATIONS
From 1940 to the Present
Transition
The Future