The Metropolitan Tower: A Pedagogical Research Initiated by Michel Kagan

An English—language, updated edition of an influential French reference on urban high—rises.

The Metropolitan Tower is the first English—language edition of a French standard reference on the topic of the urban high—rise, published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some six hundred photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s writings and contributions by twenty—six distinguished internati...