Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Plates vi
4. Charts vii
5. Tables viii
6. Acknowledgments ix
7. ONE A Network of Connections 1
8. TWO The Time as Well as the Place 7
9. THREE A Consensus of Who Is Famous and Who Is Not: The Index of Fame 13
10. PART I Case Studies: The Apprenticeship Connection
11. FOUR Louis Sullivan 31
12. FIVE Frank Lloyd Wright 40
13. SIX Henry Hobson Richardson 56
14. SEVEN McKim, Mead & White 67
15. EIGHT Latrobe and His Descendants 80
16. NINE The Bulfinch and Renwick Lines 93
17. TEN The European Immigrant Masters in the Twentieth Century 115
18. ELEVEN Louis Kahn 130
19. TWELVE The Loners 139
20. PART II Conventional Wisdom about Architects9 Predispositions for Fame
21. THIRTEEN Connections: Family, Friends, Schools 151
22. FOURTEEN Self-promotion and Publicity 167
23. FIFTEEN Other, Weaker Patterns 182
24. SIXTEEN The Historians as Fame Makers 207
25. SEVENTEEN Afterword on the Fame-Making System 226
26. Notes 231
27. Bibliography 259
28. Index of Architects 269