Architecture New Exhibition Gives Movement To The Philadelphia School Two fans of Modernism re-evaluate architectural history with the exhibition, "What Was the Philadelphia ...
Art & Design When Modernism Took A Pew At St. Francis De Sales St. Francis de Sales church on 47th and Springfield broke from tradition in the late 1960's when former pastor Father John McNamee hired Venturi Scott Brown to re-conceptualize the sanctuary's altar with a dramatic Modern ...
Art & Design Benjamin Franklin Museum Opens This Weekend, Free Of Its Old Quirks The brand new Benjamin Franklin Museum opens on Saturday. Bicentennial baby Brad Maule finds the charm of its predecessor missing from the sleek new ...
Architecture Venturi’s Guild House: 50 Years Of Everyday Extraordinary Design Fifty years out, Robert Venturi's landmark Guild House still receives mixed reviews—just as Venturi might have it. Jason Lempieri provides his architectural insight of the landmark building (on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places since ...
Architecture Fleisher Architecture Memorial: Remembering The Woman Who Crafted The Parkway House, 60 Years Later On the Ben Franklin Parkway, a benchmark building by one of Philadelphia's first female architects is about to turn 60. Fátima Olivieri tells its ...
Architecture At Drexel, Iconic ISI Becomes URBN With tomorrow night's official opening of the Drexel URBN Center in mind, Hidden City caught up with Drexel architecture chair Jon Coddington for a tour of the building that houses his department and others in ...
