[Table of Contents] --

Acknowledgments --

Foreword / Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. --

Introduction --

CHAPTER ONE: The Commission --

CHAPTER TWO: The History of The Larkin Company --

CHAPTER THREE: The Evolution and Sources of the Design --

CHAPTER FOUR: Functional Aspects of the Design --

CHAPTER FIVE: The Message in the Building --

CHAPTER SIX: The Critical Response --

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Demolition --

APPENDIX A: Darwin Martin's Office Building Requirements --

APPENDIX B: Darwin Martin Letter to John Larkin of January 7, 1903 refuting the Coss plan --

APPENDIX C: Darwin Martin Letter to John Larkin of March 20, 1903 reporting on Wright --

APPENDIX D: Darwin Martin Letter to John Larkin of May 12, 1903 refuting the Heath plan --

APPENDIX E: "The Inscriptions on the Court of the Administration Building" --

APPENDIX F: Chronological List of Writings on the Larkin Administration Building --

APPENDIX G: Frank Lloyd Wright, "The New Larkin Administration Building" --

APPENDIX H: William Heath, "The Office Building and What It Will Bring to the Office Force" --

APPENDIX I: George Twitmyer, "A Model Administration Building" --

APPENDIX J: Marion Harland, "The Administration Building" --

APPENDIX K: Russell Sturgis, "The Larkin Building in Buffalo" --

APPENDIX L: Frank Lloyd Wright, "Reply to Mr. Sturgis's Criticism" --

Notes --

Index.