Between Dictate and Design: The Architecture of Office Buildings, 1987,Hardcover

From the back cover:

"The relationship between the client and the architect, between the owner and the builder, determines the quality of the architecture.  The freedom that Herbert Johnson of the Johnson Wax Company granted to Frank Lloyd Wright is legendary, and it produced a splendid, innovative office building that accentuated the image of the company. . .

International developments and the important moments in those developments are discussed in detail.  It the United States they include the Chicago school, the Larkin Building of Frank Lloyd Wright, the 1922 competition for the Chicago Tribune, Rockefeller Center, Lever House of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and the Seagram Building of Mies van der Rohe. . .