The story behind a little-known episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology a 1950s creativity study of the top architects of the day, including Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra, George Nelson, and dozens more is now published for the first time.
The story of midcentury architecture in America is dominated by outsized figures who were universally acknowledged as creative geniuses. Yet virtually unheard of is this intensive 1958 59 study, conducted at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California,...