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Los Laboratorios de Biotecnología Richards (en inglés: Richards Medical Research Building) están ubicados en la Universidad de Pensilvania, Estados Unidos. Son usados principalmente por estudiantes de las facultades de esta universidad relacionadas con la biología y tecnología.
Laboratorios Médicos Richards, Filadelfia. Louis Kahn. Tipología Laboratorio Salud. Fecha 1957 - 1965. Ciudad Filadelfia (Pensilvania) País Estados Unidos. Fotógrafo Grant Mudford.
- Served and Servant Spaces
- Evoking The Past
- Structure of The Richards Medical Research Laboratories
- About Louis Kahn
The served spaces are the laboratories themselves. The servant spaces are the independently structured shafts for ventilation and stairways attached to the outside of the laboratory towers and the two service towers, which house elevators, animal quarters, mechanical systems, and other auxiliary areas. Kahn spoke critically of laboratories designed...
Kahn, who up to this point had been an influential professor of architecture but not yet a significant architect, had been teaching that part of the problem was that too many architects were turning their backs on the past.With the Richards Medical Research Laboratories, Kahn showed a way forward with a design that was clearly in the Modern style a...
In contrast to buildings in the style of International Modernism, which typically had structures of relatively light-weight steel frames that were often hidden behind glass walls, the laboratory towers have concrete structures that are clearly visible and openly depicted as bearing weight. The structure was engineered by August Komendant, a pioneer...
Louis Isadore Kahn (1901 – 1974) was an American architect based in Philadelphia whose proposals and teaching made him one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Kahn created a monumental and monolithic style. Primarily, his massive buildings do not hide their weight, materials, or how they are assembled. Among Louis Kahn’s mo...
En 1957 dejo de dar clases en Yale para entrar en la Universidad de Pensilvania, lo cual propicio el encargo de los laboratorios de investigación medica de dicha facultad, bautizados posteriormente como Laboratorios Alfred Newton Richards, una de las obras que con más fuerza expresa su ruptura con muchos de los principios funcionales ...
The Richards Medical Research Laboratories, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, were designed by architect Louis Kahn and are considered to have been a breakthrough in his career.
Kahn’s breakthrough into the upper ranks of contemporary architecture was brought about by the completion between 1957 and 1960 of the Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Richards Medical Research Laboratories, located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, were designed by architect Louis Kahn and are considered a turning point in his career. The building is configured as a group of laboratory towers with a central service tower.
