{"id":8169,"date":"2018-04-06T14:14:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T13:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/?p=8169"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:15:43","slug":"philly-masterpieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/philly-masterpieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly masterpieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trip to Philadelphia for <strong>President&#8217;s Day<\/strong> weekend. A city where great American architects were based, like <a href=\"http:\/\/louiskahn.es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louis Kahn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vsba.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venturi\/Scott Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from some impressive\u00a0historical buildings, amazing <strong>examples of modernist architecture<\/strong> (<strong>I. M. Pei<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/societyhilltowers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society Hill towers<\/a>, a concrete <strong>Mies<\/strong> sitting beautifully on a hill) and <strong>postmodernism<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluffton.edu\/homepages\/facstaff\/sullivanm\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/venturiguild\/guild.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venturi and Rauch&#8217;s Guild House<\/a>, or how to relate intelligently to the <strong>American welfare&#8217;s official style: blocks of red brick<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0374-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0374-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0374-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0374-740x987.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the biggest flashes of elegance in downtown come from <strong>hollow buildings<\/strong>: several-story parking buildings scattered throughout the city, which, rid of facade design other than the stacking of slabs and the placing of columns, manage to convey powerfully through architecture some of the <strong>strongest qualities of American cities: the omnipresent grid<\/strong>; and the car, the other inhabitant of the cities that also needs a house. 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