MixedThe Wall Street Journal...an often moving and occasionally surprising book but one that fails to pierce the essential remoteness of its deceptively gregarious subject and, more important, that fails to take the full measure of his accomplishment ... Ms. Lesser paints a portrait of an unlikely but uncommonly successful seducer, charming in a rumpled suit liberally dusted with cigar ash, bow tie askew ... For all her copious interviews, Ms. Lesser does not give the buildings themselves sufficient chance to speak. And when she does analyze a building, the results are not always convincing ... Ms. Lesser offers some clues to his remarkable, and oddly delayed, artistic blossoming. But there is a great deal more to be said about this enigmatic perfectionist whose will to give order, harmony and resolution to his designs could not be less fashionable, or more desperately needed.