The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
ProfessionArchitect; Historian Of Technology; Historian; Writer
WorksThe City In History; The Myth Of The Machine
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca; National Medal Of Arts; Royal Gold Medal; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; National Book Award
