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This probing philosophical question, posed in 1955 by the American architect Louis I. Kahn, underlies the extraordinarily powerful buildings and projects for which he is known, as well as these two studies of Philadelphia's city center.
The City Tower is designed for city of Philadelphia. This city was the hometown of Louis Kahn. During the 1950s Kahn studied the city intensively. In a serie of designs he proposes major and monumental alterations of the city centre.
By re-visiting Louis Kahn's urban design plan for Central Philadelphia in the 1950s, this paper explores the history and controversy of one of the most provocative modernist urban design...
2 de may. de 2021 · The 30-story tower would have stood just to the north of City Hall. The tower was designed by architect Louis I. Kahn in a dramatic Futurist style, as the building’s design and form were way ahead of its time. City Tower in the Philadelphia skyline aerial looking northwest.
20 de feb. de 2018 · After Kahn left his role as architectural consultant to the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, he continued studying and reimagining Philadelphia’s downtown on his own. The City Tower...
5 de oct. de 2021 · No hay un marco más acertado para encuadrar un proyecto como el que traemos hoy que este, la tan característica monumentalidad de Louis Kahn, materializada una vez más en la propuesta de la City Tower, una torre de oficinas y ayuntamiento para la ciudad de Philadelphia, concebida entre 1952 y 1957.
Based on his principle of “served” and “servant” spaces, Kahn created conceptual plans for the Center City district of Philadelphia that included traffic-flow redesign and structures that were sensitive to the issues of an ever-growing urban center. Have your students brain-storm a list of possible improvements to the design of their neighborhood.
