Associated largely with the post-World War II era of economic expansion and the monumental growth in power and size of American business organizations, the architecture of corporate office parks has its antecedents in designs as different as Rockefeller Center (1927–45), by Reinhard and Hoffmeister, with H. W.Corbett and Raymond Hood, in New York City, and Walter Gropius’s Werkbund Factory and Administration Building (1914) in Stuttgart, Germany. Although corporate office parks are often reviled today by “signature architects” in favor of other, more prestigious commissions, many of the early examples of this form of architecture were designed by such well-known masters as Frank Lloyd Wright and Eero Saarinen. The history of U.S. corporate office park architecture is tilted toward the second half of the 20th century. Before 1945 large-scale construction in the United States was slowed because of the Great Depression, the materials shortages spawned by World Wars I and II, and the fledg...