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In Philadelphia Builds, architecture critic Michael J. Lewis explains why Philadelphia has produced so many extraordinary architects, including Louis Kahn, Frank Furness, and Robert Venturi.

Michael J. Lewis is the author of nine books on art and architecture, including Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, The Gothic Revival, and American Art and Architecture. He is the architecture critic at the Wall Street Journal, and his essays and reviews have been published in the New York Times, Commentary, New Criterion, and Architectural Record, among others. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College, and divides his time between Williamstown, MA and Philadelphia.