Arata Isozaki, Installation Designer Of First Louis Kahn Retrospective, Receives Pritzker Prize
Celebrated Japanese architect Arata Isozaki wins the world's premier lifetime achievement award in the building arts. In Philadelphia, he is known for his creative installation design of the first retrospective devoted to Louis Kahn. Lance Knickerbocker has the story > more
Op-ed: Lessons Learned & Magic Found At Neutra’s Hassrick House In East Falls
In this personal essay Jefferson University architecture student Shannon McLain gives a passionate account of the student-led effort to preserve a mid-century modern home on Cherry Lane. > more
Exhuming A Pyramid Of Petrol Along The “Golden Mile”
Greg Prichard takes us on a suburban expedition to find Vincent Kling's lost, modernist gas station on City Avenue > more
Inside An Atomic Age Time Capsule In Fitler Square
Michael Bixler gives us a last look inside the former studio of mid-century architect Norman Rice > more
Battered Brutalist School Awaits Neighborhood Plan
In Eastwick, powerful architecture battles trash and vandalism at vacant George Pepper Middle School. Michael Bixler takes a look with this photo essay. > more
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