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.
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ISBN
9781000626933
Publisert
2022
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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