The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.


Hugh Ferriss: "Prophet of Metropolis"

Part 1
Part 2
Part 4

This 2-hour lecture is presented here in four parts. Each part should take 10 minutes to download completely, but, after a brief initial load time, it can be streamed in real time with a fast internet connection. Once loaded, you can drag the playhead to scan the slides and hear more about a particular image.