An attempt to define American architecture contrasts historic and modern styles.
Visits to the University of Virginia and the Loyola Law School show concepts of positive environments.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello; Mark Twain's Connecticut home; William Randolph Hearst's California castle.
Frank Lloyd Wright envisions a place 'everywhere and nowhere.'
Vacations: camps of the Adirondacks, marble cottages of Newport, Walt Disney World.
American architects match the vastness of the continent with vaulting interiors.
The Tribune Tower in Chicago and the Empire State Building define the skyscraper.
Planners seek an artistically ideal city with an easily divisible gridiron.