New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. First Edition. Small quarto with black boards and silver spine title in grey and blue pictorial jacket; xi, 180 pages: illustrations; 27 cm Near fine, clean and tight, in near fine jacket, now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300030134
Traces the history of the status in society and public image of the architectural profession from the eighteenth century to the present.Contents: The architect as hero and genius. Myth and the medieval architect. The architect as professional: Britain in the nineteenth century. The architect as businessman: the United States in the nineteenth century. The architect as gentleman. The battle of the Bauhaus. The architect as entrepreneur. The influence of imagination in architecture. .
