was to counteract the tendency for buildings to occupy the whole of their lot and go straight up as far as was possible. Since many architects were not sure exactly what these laws meant for their designs, in 1922 the skyscraper architect Harvey Wiley Corbett commissioned Ferriss to draw a series of four step-by-step perspectives demonstrating the architectural consequences of the zoning law. These four drawings would later be used in his 1929 book The Metropolis of Tomorrow. This book illustrated many conte crayon sketches of tall buildings. Some of the sketches were theoretical studies of possible setback variations within the 1916 zoning laws. Some were renderings for other architect's skyscrapers. And at the end of the book was a sequence of views in Manhattan emerged in an almost Babylonian guise. His writing in the book betrayed an ambivalence to the rapid urbanization of America: In 1955, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1960. Death and legacy Ferriss died in 1962. His archive, including drawings and papers, is held by the Drawings & Archives Department of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. Every year, the American Society of Architectural Illustrators gives out the Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize for architectural rendering excellence. The medal features Ferriss's original "Fourth Stage" drawing, executed in bronze. Selected works The Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri. Harold Van Buren Magonigle, architect. The Four Stages Chicago Tribune Tower. Howells & Hood, architects. Players Club, Detroit, Michigan. Smith Hinchman & Grylls [SH&G], architects. Radiator Building, New York City. Raymond Hood, architect. Buhl Building, Detroit, Michigan. Smith Hinchman & Grylls [SH&G], architects. Chicago Board of Trade Building. Holabird & Root, architects. Penobscot Building, Detroit, Michigan. Smith Hinchman & Grylls [SH&G], architects. Guardian [Union Trust] Building, Detroit, Michigan. Smith Hinchman & Grylls [SH&G], architects. Telephone Building, St. Louis, Missouri. Mauran, Russell & Crowell and Timlin, architects. Selected publications Ferriss, Hugh. The Metropolis of Tomorrow, with essay by Carol Willis. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1986. Reprint of 1929 edition. . Ferriss, Hugh. Power in Buildings, An Artist’s View of Contemporary Buildings. New York: Columbia University Press, 1953. Ferriss, Hugh. American Capitals of Industry: A Series of Drawings by Hugh Ferriss. Harpers Magazine, July 1919. References Further reading William J. Curtis. Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Third edition) Hoak & Church. Masterpieces of American Architecture.