With hindsight we all know now that Chicago is where the spirit of American architecture truly resided (in the early 20th Century); the hindsight of the year 2000 may show that in 1965 she inhabited some mid-western motel that is missing from the museum’s tradition-bound selection.
— Reyner Banham, “The Missing Motel” Landscape 15 (Winter 1965) p. 4-5
