A Vision of the New Metropolis Born in Vienna, Austria, to a father who speculated in real estate, Paul Theodor Frankl carried the spirit of European modernism across the Atlantic when he arrived in the United States in 1914. He did not merely arrive as an architect; he came as a man possessed by the energy of the changing century. While his early studies took him through Berlin and Copenhagen, it was the vertical ambition of New York City that truly ignited his creative pulse. He looked upon the rising skyline and saw more than steel and stone; he saw a new way to inhabit space. His early…