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The FirmWhat Skidmore, Owings & Merrill did for American architecture.

By Witold RybczynskiPosted Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006, at 12:57 PM ET

Click here to see a slide showClick here to read a slide-show essay about architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. His latest book is My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life.
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