"ARCHITECTS ON ARCHITECTS attempts to address this loaded question in a series of 24 essays by leading architects of the late twentieth century from around the world--from Norman Foster to Carlos Jimenez to Tadao Ando. As the essays illustrate, influence is actually not simply a question of "who?" but rather comes from a number of different sources: a single building, an entire career of an architect, or sometimes just an attitude or way of looking. Many of these influential experiences happened during the architect's formative years as students or interns and the impact of how these influences changed the direction of a life are revealed for the first time in these later career recollections. For Richard Rogers, his visit to the Maison de Verre as a student in 1955 would not only determine his thesis project, it would stay with him through the next half century as the symbol of "the power of innovation itself." For Tadao Ando, Le Corbusier's words in Vers une Architecture stressing that a journey in one's youth has a deep and strong significance throughout a lifetime inspired the young untrained aspiring architect to visit Le Corbusier's church at Ronchamp in 1965."