"First-person chronicle of 16 buildings designed by New York-based architect James Stewart Polshek over the course of 50 years. Polshek is responsible for many of the most important public buildings in the United States: William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, etc. The 16 projects are covered in detail, from beginning of project through design decisions to finished building. Personal, anecdotal text. Heavily illustrated throughout"--