“It takes a certain chutzpah to argue that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is underrated. The firm is, after all, a colossus of world architecture with well over 10,000 projects to its credit, including several of the most iconic modernist buildings of the 20th century… But none of this quite dispels the sense that when the story of American architecture’s development is told, SOM, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, gets short shrift.”