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Philly Modernism Takes Center Stage at National Symposium
Architecture

Philly Modernism Takes Center Stage at National Symposium

Docomomo US comes to Philadelphia to spotlight the city’s midcentury pedigree

Op-Ed: Save the Roundhouse!
Preservation

Op-Ed: Save the Roundhouse!

Philadelphia’s finest example of Brutalist architecture faces an uncertain future. It deserves a second life

Legendary Philly Soul Studio and Brutalist Icon Go Before Designation Committee
Preservation

Legendary Philly Soul Studio and Brutalist Icon Go Before Designation Committee

Starr Herr-Cardillo has this roundup of local register nominations on the agenda for the August meeting of the Philadelphia Historical Commission’s Designation Committee

Advocates Mobilize to Save a Mid-Century Modern Icon
Preservation

Advocates Mobilize to Save a Mid-Century Modern Icon

In Chestnut Hill, the Dorothy Shipley White House gets a helping hand

Arata Isozaki, Installation Designer Of First Louis Kahn Retrospective, Receives Pritzker Prize
Architecture

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

Op-ed: Lessons Learned & Magic Found At Neutra’s Hassrick House In East Falls
Architecture

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.

Exhuming a Pyramid of Petrol Along the “Golden Mile”
Architecture

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

Inside An Atomic Age Time Capsule In Fitler Square
Architecture

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


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