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The Philadelphia school and the future of architecture / John Lobell.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection NA735.P5 L63 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lobell, John, author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Philadelphia school (Architecture).
- University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts--History.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Architecture--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Architecture.
- Architecture and society--History--21st century.
- Architecture and society.
- University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts.
- Buildings.
- Genre:
- History.
- Authors' inscriptions.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 191 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Flourishing from 1951 to 1965, the Philadelphia School was an architectural golden age that saw a unique convergence of city, practice, and education, all in renewal. And it was a bringing together of architecture, city and regional planning, and landscape architecture education under the leadership of Dean G. Holmes Perkins. During that time at the architecture school at the University of Pennsylvania (known as the Graduate School of Fine Arts or GSFA) Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi were transforming modern architecture; Romaldo Giurgola was applying continental philosophy to architectural theory; Robert Le Ricolais was building experimental structures; Ian McHarg was questioning Western civilization and advancing urban and regional ecology; Herbert Gans was moving into Levittown; and Denise Scott Brown was forging a syncretism of European and American planning theory and discovering popular culture. And in the city, Edmund Bacon was directing the most active city planning commission in the country. This book describes the history of the school, the transformation of the city of Philadelphia, and the philosophy of the Philadelphia School in the context of other movements of the time, and looks at what the Philadelphia School has to offer to architecture today and in the future, all from the point of view of a student who was there"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Philadelphia
- The school
- Philosophies of the Philadelphia school
- Philadelphia school buildings
- The Philadelphia school and the future of architecture.
- Notes:
- Athenaeum literary award ; 2022
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copies: Gemmill fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum literary award copy inscribed by the author.
- Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Lobell, John. Philadelphia school and the future of architecture
- Online version: Lobell, John. Philadelphia school and the future of architecture
- ISBN:
- 9781032015231
- 1032015233
- 9781032015248
- 1032015241
- OCLC:
- 1296405155
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