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The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture (Hardcover): John Lobell The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture (Hardcover)
John Lobell
R4,141 Discovery Miles 41 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Louis Kahn - The Philosophy of Architecture (Hardcover): John Lobell Louis Kahn - The Philosophy of Architecture (Hardcover)
John Lobell
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy. Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the twentieth century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In this book, noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Kahn's work clearly conveys a kind of transcendent rootedness - a rootedness in the fundamentals of architecture that also asks soaring questions about our experience of light and space, and even how we fit into the world. In Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy, John Lobell seeks to reveal how Kahn's buildings speak to grand humanistic concerns. Through examinations of five of Kahn's great buildings - the Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven - Lobell presents a clear but detailed look at how the way these buildings are put together presents Kahn's philosophy, including how Kahn wishes us to experience them. An architecture book that touches on topics that addresses the universal human interests of consciousness and creativity, Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy helps us understand our place and the nature of well-being in the built environment.

Growing Up In Ridgewood, Queens, 1920 to 1932 - A Narrative of a Family, An Era, A Community (Paperback): John Lobell Growing Up In Ridgewood, Queens, 1920 to 1932 - A Narrative of a Family, An Era, A Community (Paperback)
John Lobell; Griselda Holzinger Lobell
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Movies, Myths, and Archetypes (Paperback): John Lobell Movies, Myths, and Archetypes (Paperback)
John Lobell
R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Architecture and Structures of Consciousness - The foundations of perception, culture, art, science, and technology... Architecture and Structures of Consciousness - The foundations of perception, culture, art, science, and technology (Paperback)
John Lobell
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Visionary Creativity - How New Worlds Are Born (Paperback): John Lobell Visionary Creativity - How New Worlds Are Born (Paperback)
John Lobell
R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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