Abbreviations of frequently cited sources and institutions
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction : reviewing Sullivan after Modernism
The Romantic context and Emerson's poetic project for an American art
John Ruskin : the picturesque discourse and the language of architectural naturalism
Gothic naturalism and the Ruskinian critical tradition in America
The auditorium building : a Ruskinian reading
Ruskin's reception in the Chicago School
Sullivan's emergence as a landscape poet-architect
Naturalized technology : Sullivan's theory of skyscraper design
Ut pictura architectura : Sullivan's pictorial techniques for representing nature in architecture
The transportation building : Sullivan's manifesto of poeticized architecture
Epilogue : the problem of Sullivan's poetic legacy
