In this thoughtful and sumptuously illustrated overview of his five decades of designing purposeful intriguing buildings Gyo Obata points to collaboration with his clients as one of the most important principles of his working style. A founding partner of the architectural firm HOK and the designer of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Obata describes his work on such diverse projects as the Florida Aquarium the McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield Illinois.