Preface - Chapter 1: The Postwar Dream Takes Hold - Chapter 2: Pioneering Steel Houses - Chapter 3: Complete Works - Notes - Chronology - Bibliography - Index
Wolfgang Wagener is a practising architect with offices in Los Angeles and Munich. He has worked in the offices of Richard Rogers and Helmut Jahn, and his writings on twentieth-century modern architecture have been published in books and international architecture journals, including Architectural Record, ARCH+, and a+u. Since 1997 he has been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where, as part of his research, he is producing digital reconstructions of non-extant Soriano buildings.
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