"A Buell Center/Columbia book of architecture."

Revised edition of Spanish original.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Joan Ockman -- pt. 1. High-Rise Construction and the Modern Movement -- Ch. 1. The Theoretical Contributions of Le Corbusier -- pt. 2. Technological Evolution of Contemporary High-Rise Structures -- Ch. 2. Structural Development -- Ch. 3. Evolution of Glass Curtain Wall Construction -- Ch. 4. The Mechanically Regulated Environment and Its Structural Implications -- pt. 3. Typological and Urban Evolution of the Contemporary High-Rise Building -- Ch. 5. The Evolution of Space Planning in the Workplace -- Ch. 6. Evolution of Topological Planning in the High-Rise Building: The Mixed-Use Skyscraper.

"In Tower and Office, Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization."--Jacket.