Frank Williams's high-rise structures embody the best of Modernism; but where the century-old movement presented the hope of a new machine age, an era of plenty, ease, and social harmony, the Modernism of Frank Williams that closes the millennium is one wiser about architecture's limitations. While early Modern architecture came to represent some of the worst excesses of our age—the squandering of the earth’s resources, the loss of the value of place, and the eradication of local culture and custom --today’s Modern architecture helps to mend those ways.

Architects like Frank Williams foster an attitude toward design that is the very best of a Modern way of thinking about technology in the service of humankind, about architecture engaged with the world as it exists (wherever it may be), and concerned with making people’s lives better.