#sarah williams goldhagen

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Books of 2024: WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

[beroidae]

hey sorry to bother you but did you ever find out what the architecture book was in the tags of this post? https://www.tumblr.com/beroidae/744792178207948800?source=share

would've asked the person you reblogged from but their asks and dms are closed haha sorry for the out of the blue ask! no pressure to reply hope you have a good day :)

LOL you're fine, i don't mind! she said it was this one 👉 https://www.harpercollins.com/products/welcome-to-your-world-sarah-williams-goldhagen?variant=32122104512546

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One thing I often say is there’s no such thing as a neutral environment. If the environment we inhabit — whether cityscapes or landscapes or buildings — is not supporting us, it’s probably harming us.

[Cities] undervalue the importance of the design of the built environment altogether. There is this sort of professional split between high architecture and building, which my research shows is just fallacious. It’s all architecture and it’s all important, because it’s all having an impact on people all the time.

See also:  Sarah Williams Goldhagen — Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

[davidbrussat]

Goldberger & Goldhagen

Goldhagen likes U.K. Pavilion, by Thomas Heatherwick, at Shanghai World Expo. (domusweb)

The Nation magazine has a review by Paul Goldberger of a book by Sarah Williams Goldhagen, also a respected architecture critic, called Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives. Goldberger’s review, “A Shimmery Cube,” applauds Goldhagen in ways that you might expect when a modernist…

[virtualmemoriespodcast]

Episode 213 - Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Why are our buildings crushing our quality of life? Sarah Williams Goldhagen joins the show to talk about her new book, Welcome To Your World (Harper), and how we can live in a better built environment. We get into cognitive neuroscience and the theory of mind-body-environment consciousness, the perils of lowest-common-denominator construction and design, the perils of the "starchitect" phenomenon, the limits of Jane Jacobs' urban proscriptions, the experience of going on urban planning vacations as a kid with her dad, how she and her family wound up living in a converted church in East Harlem, the challenges of architecture criticism, how her book was predicted by one of my favorite 1980s comics, the planning process a year-long around-the-world trip, and more! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

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2017

Reading List:

 World Without Mind- Franklin Foer  On Suicide- Emile Durkheim  How Much Land Does A Man Need- Leo Tolstoy  Where We Want To Live- Ryan Gravel  Cosmopolitanism- Kwame Anthony Appiah  Montaigne in Barnboots- Michael Perry  Tiny Beautiful Things- Cheryl Strayed  Ready Player One- Ernest Cline  How to Think- Alan Jacobs  The Righteous Mind- Jonathan Haidt  Why we Hate Cheap Things- Alain de Botton  Counterclockwise- Ellen Langer  The Hero’s Journey- Joseph Campbell  Braving The Wilderness- Brene Brown  Norse Mythology- Neil Gaiman  Hero with 1000 faces- Joseph Campbell  Ghosts- A Haunted History- Lisa Morton  What happened- Hillary Clinton  Mans Search for Meaning- Victor Frankel  Selfish Shallow and self absorbed- Megan Daum  The Alchemist- Paul Coelho  City On the Verge- Mark Pendegrast  The New Urban Crisis- Richard Florida  White Working Class- Joan Williams  Throwing Rocks at The Google Bus- Douglass Rushkoff  Capital- Stephen Piketty  Real Artists Don't Starve- Jeff Goins  Pogue's Basics: Money- David Pogue  The Gnostic Gospels- Elaine Pagles  The Undiscovered Self- CG Jung  Occult America- Mitch Horowitz  300 Arguments- Sarah Manguso  The World Beyond Your Head- Matthew Crawford  The Unsettlers- Mark Sundeen  The Courage To Create- Rollo May  Buddhist Economics- Clair Brown  The End of White Christian America- Robert P. Jones  Deep Thinking- Gary Kasparov  Evicted- Matthew Desmond  The Outrun- Amy Liptrot  Welcome To Your World- Sarah Williams Goldhagen  The Complacent Class- Tyler Cowen  Strangers in Their Own Land- Arlie Russell Hochschild  Bourbon Empire- Reid Mitenbuler  Guide to Urban Moonshining- Colin Spoelman and David Haskell  Thank You For Being Late- Thomas Friedman  The Selfishness of Others- Kristin Dombek  Homo Deus- Yuval Harari  Sapiens- Yuval Harari  The Noonday Demon- Andrew Solomon  Deep Work- Cal Newport  Inversion of The City- Alan Ehrenhalt  Born To Run- Bruce Springsteen  One Straw Revolutionary- Larry Koran

Top 5:

Sapiens, Deep Work, The Hero With 1,000 Faces, On Suicide, The Courage to Create

The Secret Lair was in its second year. It released 12 episodes and I wrote and recorded 52 songs for myself and 3 songs for The Midnight. 

Resolution kept:

work out three times a week

meditate and daily pages every week day

New Resolutions:

move to flip phone and stay there

social media only on desk top (and only Twitter & Tumblr)

read one book of poetry a month

keep working out/meditate/daily pages

rough draft of book finished by December

inner expansiveness; outward coziness

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(via Khi kiến trúc đô thị tạo nên hạnh phúc – Căn hộ Bcons Garden Dĩ An Bình Dương)

Khi kiến trúc đô thị tạo nên hạnh phúcMôi trường, không gian và kiến trúc cảnh quan có ảnh hưởng sâu sắc đến trải nghiệm sống, cảm xúc, tính cách và mức độ hạnh phúc từng cá nhân cũng như xã hội. Từ câu chuyện môi trường định hình tính cách và lối sống con người…Nhiều học giả nghiên cứu về kiến trúc và môi trường đã chỉ ra cảnh quan và các công trình xây dựng có ảnh hưởng lớn tới đời sống con người. Trong cuốn "Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives" tác giả Sarah Williams Goldhagen, một kiến trúc sư đã đưa ra luận điểm: cảnh quan, không gian sống có tác động quan trọng trong việc hình thành tâm trạng, năng lượng, lối sống, tính cách của con người.Một ví dụ điển hình cho luận điểm này là câu chuyện về dòng suối nhân tạo giữa trung tâm thành phố Seoul Hàn Quốc - Cheonggyecheon. Cheonggyecheon là một dòng suối cổ chảy qua thành phố, con suối này được chính quyền lấp đi để xây dựng đường cao tốc và phát triển hạ tầng - những hình ảnh tiêu biểu “Kỳ tích sông Hàn” thời bấy giờ.

Dòng suối Cheonggyecheon trở thành điểm dừng chân không thể thiếu của người dân Seoul

Năm 2006, với quyết tâm trả lại không gian công cộng cho người dân, biến Seoul trở thành một đô thị hiện đại, đặt chất lượng sống lên hàng đầu, thị trưởng thành phố thời bấy giờ đã thực hiện một dự án táo bạo: Khôi phục lại dòng suối đã bị lấp. Từ một khu vực đặc bê tông cốt thép, con suối đã trở lại, dòng chảy trong vắt với cây cối xanh mát hai bên, trở thành điểm dừng chân yêu thích của người dân Seoul. Đây là nơi các gia đình đưa con trẻ tới vui chơi, dân văn phòng nghỉ ngơi sau những giờ làm việc căng thẳng, chốn hội tụ của các hoạt động văn hóa, nghệ thuật đường phố và điểm đến không thể bỏ qua của khách du lịch. Một thống kê cho thấy nhiệt độ khu vực này thấp hơn từ 1,5 - 2 độ so với biên độ nhiệt chung của thành phố dày đặc các tòa cao ốc. … đến bài toán không gian sống của đô thị hiện đạiTừ những ví dụ trên, trở về Việt Nam, không khó để thấy chúng ta đang gặp phải vấn đề lớn trong phát triển không gian sống chất lượng. Tại nhiều nơi, dân phải sống trong những căn hộ, nhà ở cứng nhắc, thiếu sự đầu tư thiết kế không gian sống bền vững. Cùng với áp lực lớn trong guồng quay của phát triển đô thị, "sức khỏe tâm lý" con người phần nào bị ảnh hưởng. Thực trạng này đặt ra bài toán cho các dự án mới trong việc thiết kế không gian sống tối ưu, sao cho mỗi cư dân không chỉ được đáp ứng các nhu cầu hàng ngày ở mức cao mà còn có được sự hài hòa giữa hiện đại và thiên nhiên, giữa làm việc, học tập và tận hưởng cuộc sống. “Vườn trên cao” - Không gian mới khơi nguồn cảm xúcƯu tiên đặt trải nghiệm sống cân bằng của cư dân là trọng tâm, Dự án Căn hộ Bcons Garden đã giải bài toán không gian sống bằng kiến trúc “Vườn trên cao”.

Mô hình “Vườn trên cao” của Bcons Garden khơi gợi những cảm xúc mới về cuộc sống đô thị

Đặc trưng của thiết kế này là việc đưa công viên cây xanh lên tầng cao của tòa nhà. Mô hình này giúp cư dân có được trải nghiệm trọn vẹn nhất, đã được các thành phố lớn và hiện đại nhất trên thế giới áp dụng thành công như Thượng Hải, NewYork, Hongkong… Tại đây, mọi không gian từ khu trung tâm thương mại, văn phòng Co-working, phòng gym - spa, không gian thiền Zen Space… đều hiện đại, thông minh và được chăm chút cầu kỳ đến từng chi tiết nhỏ. Không chỉ đáp ứng các nhu cầu từ học tập tới làm việc và trải nghiệm, tiện ích của tòa nhà còn giúp cư dân phục hồi, tái tạo năng lượng sống cho bản thân mỗi ngày.Với điều đó, Bcons Garden có nhiều không gian cho cây xanh, và cảnh quan khoáng đạt. Sự thoáng đãng, trong lành quý giá này giúp cư dân có được không gian sống cân bằng, được tận hưởng từng khoảnh khắc của cuộc sống. Mỗi cá nhân không chỉ có cuộc sống tiện lợi tối đa mà còn được ưu tiên cho sức khỏe, thư giãn và tận hưởng trải nghiệm. Bcons Garden đã đang tạo lập một phong cách sống mới - sống mọi khoảnh khắc, sống trọn từng giây, đầy an nhiên, khoáng đạt và hạnh phúc.

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The 21st-Century Neighborhood Library

Essay by Julie Sandorf. Sandorf has served as president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation since January 2008. Before joining Revson, she was a co-founder and executive director of Nextbook, a national organization dedicated to the creation and promotion of Jewish literature, culture, and the arts. Tonight’s public program at Cooper Hewitt explores the changing civic role of public libraries in the 21st century.

Andrew Carnegie, whose magnificent New York City mansion is now home 
to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, bestowed a legacy extending far beyond East 91st Street. Between 1893 and 1919, Carnegie funded the construction of 1,687 public libraries across the United States, including sixty-seven neighborhood libraries in New York. Carnegie’s prolific philanthropic activity left an everlasting physical, social, and intellectual imprint on community life, as relevant today as it was a century ago.

Today, New York City’s 207 neighborhood libraries attract over 40.5 million visitors annually—more than
 all of the city’s professional sports teams and major cultural institutions combined. New York City’s public library system comprises three units: the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL); Queens Library; and New York Pubic Library (NYPL), which serve the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Together they constitute 
the city’s single most important resource for lifelong learning, serving 
to acculturate new generations 
of immigrants, and amplifying and supplementing the education of children from the youngest ages. The branches offer new media technology to over three million New Yorkers without access to high-speed internet service, while continuing to serve an essential role as repositories for books and information. Free programs such as NYPL’s TechConnect and career and resume help provide assistance to people of all ages. Libraries are civic hubs for cultural life—offering live performances and author readings, and acting as neighborhood art galleries and creative maker spaces for all ages.

Sunset Park is a crowded—sometimes overcrowded— branch.

Above all, branch libraries are ideally suited to what architecture critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen calls “third places—offering vibrant, informal, attractive, noncommercial community places
 where people of any age, class, gender, race, religion, or ethnicity can gather 
and obtain access to resources vital to 
full participation in contemporary life.”[1] Located in every single neighborhood, New York City’s branch libraries are an invaluable resource—our civic squares of community intellectual, social, and cultural life.

  “CARNEGIES” VERSUS
 “LINDSAY BOXES”

The designs of many New York City
 branch libraries range from the lovely facades of brick and stone so clearly identifiable as “Carnegies” to the small cinderblock “Lindsay Boxes” designed
 or built during Mayor John Lindsay’s administration between 1966 and 1973. Through a donation of the Andrew Carnegie Corporation, his libraries—built through 1929 and located in all five boroughs—are concentrated in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Designed by three architectural firms— McKim, Mead, and White; Carrere and Hastings; and Babb, Cook, and Willard 
(who notably designed the Carnegie Mansion)—these tend to be larger than most other branches. The high ceilings 
and large windows create a temple-like atmosphere where books are revered and learning is nurtured. The same architectural appointments make staffing, operating, and maintenance challenging.

The “Lindsay Boxes” are conversely of lower-quality construction, built with cinderblocks, lower ceilings, and poor lighting and ventilation.

Most branches, regardless of pedigree and architectural distinction, are now marked by decades of disinvestment and currently require an estimated $1.5 billion to meet basic capital needs. Many branches are unable to adequately meet the technology demands of the digital age, nor do they have the space and interior layouts to accommodate the multiplicity of programs, services, and community uses demanded by the public in a space-starved city such as New York.

  NEW VISIONS FOR THE URBAN LANDSCAPE: BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY

Absent a modern-day Carnegie or a massive infusion of public funds to rebuild branch libraries, how might branches reutilize limited area to meet not only significantly increased demand but also diversified needs for space? The BPL, which singularly among the three library systems is burdened with the highest levels of capital needs across its sixty branches, is taking the lead in deploying new design models that are cost effective, community minded, and adaptable for use in multitudes of branches across the city. With funding from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, BPL and partner organizations, including Spaceworks, the Center for an Urban Future (CUF), and the Fifth Avenue Committee, are taking on the challenge of reinventing community libraries that align with twenty-first-century needs while making best use of precious limited community space.

A rendering of the new Sunset Park Library. MAP Architects.

Spaceworks, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding the supply of affordable workspaces for visual and performing artists, partnered with the BPL to transform the derelict and unusable second floor of Brooklyn’s first “Carnegie” library—the Williamsburgh library—into a vibrant arts center that is fully integrated 
into the programs and services of the library. Made possible by $650,000
 in funding from NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the 4,400-square-foot space now accommodates studios
 for visual artists, a classroom for local arts education, and a 1,200-square-foot rehearsal space/multipurpose room designed for dance, theater, and community programs. There is also 
a rehearsal space/community space designed for music and outfitted with a piano, a drum kit, microphones, a guitar, keyboard amps, and a digital mixing console.

The facade of historic Williamsburgh Library, constructed of brick and stone demonstrating “Carnegie” library architecture.

In addition to offering desperately needed affordable artists’ space, Spaceworks@Williamsburg Library has made it possible to partner with local community organizations to significantly expand its public programs in the arts and education. In just a year since the renovation, the number of programs offered to the public has increased by 17 percent, program attendance increased by 23 percent, and the number of visits to the branch jumped by 49 percent. Some of the programs include Free Art Fridays with L’Ecole Des Beaux Arts for children, a Middle Eastern dance workshop, acting classes, and Pilates mat sessions.

Following the 2014 publication
 of “Re-envisioning Libraries,” CUF’s groundbreaking assessment of the impact of gross underinvestment in the upkeep
 of NYC’s branch libraries, CUF and the Architectural League of New York selected five interdisciplinary design teams to devise innovative solutions to meet the needs of 
a twenty-first-century urban branch library. One team, led by Marble Fairbanks, explored the idea of mixed-use development of branch libraries for the purpose of meeting two pressing needs: twenty-first-century libraries and affordable housing.[2] The Fifth Avenue Committee—a highly respected community development corporation
based in Brooklyn—is partnering with the Brooklyn Public Library to build the city’s first mixed-use branch library/affordable housing development in the Sunset Park neighborhood. The Sunset Park Library, which has one of the highest rates of use 
in the city, is far too small to accommodate the burgeoning demands of its community and is burdened with an outdated, concrete “Lindsay Box” that has multimillion-dollar capital repair needs. The Fifth Avenue Committee and the BPL are involving local residents in the redesign of the library through outreach to diverse constituencies, community meetings, and design charrettes. Redevelopment will increase the size of Sunset Park Library from 12,200 to 21,000 square feet and add forty-nine units of affordable housing above the library.

In another innovative and cost-effective solution inspired by CUF’s 
report, a design team led by Situ Studios identified thirteen categories of library-based programs, each with a distinct set 
of spatial requirements and amenities. They developed a kit of parts—composed of folding chairs, stacking stools, mobile bookshelves, media display shelves, folding tables, bleachers, electrical reels, pin-up boards, and storage closets—to allow for wildly different uses of limited space. In Staten Island, a lecture and tutorial space refits into exhibition and reception areas; and the BPL Macon Branch kit of parts turns its maker space into a teen center, which morphs to hold a fully operational cooking class. Certain components can be stored away neatly while not in use and furniture can be quickly and easily rearranged. With an overhead system of electrical reels, even rooms with few or no electrical outlets can immediately accommodate technology and maker programs.

BPL is currently embarking on the Making Spaces project to adopt, prototype, and test this idea. The kit of parts will be designed to support an expanded range of programs, classes, and community events. With an initial focus on community rooms and children’s spaces, BPL is advancing 
a new and cost-efficient approach to realigning the branch libraries’ physical footprint with the ever-expanding services of the community library.

Footnotes

[1] Goldhagen, Sarah Williams; “Third Places—The Revolution at Your Community Library,” The New Republic, March 11, 2013.

[2] Marble Fairbanks, “Re-envisioning New York’s Branch Libraries: One Networked System.” Design Team: Scott Marble, Karen Fairbanks, Leah Meisterlin, James Lima, Richard Tyson, Jason Roberts, Keenan North, Dare Brawley.

  This essay is excerpted from the Cooper Hewitt’s Fall 2016 Design Journal, available to Cooper Hewitt members.

from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum http://ift.tt/2k6ppLe via IFTTT

[profbruce]

Welcome to your (badly designed) world

I have long maintained that architects have all but abandoned urban design to people who are uniquely unqualified to do that job--urban planners, and traffic engineers, as well as local, state and provincial politicians, ministries, departments and boards who oversee them.

If you want to create built forms and the public room that they all share/create between them that are wondrous, and that function well both from an economic as well as a social and environmental point of view, then the profession of architecture should seize back control because they actually (some of them) know something about design.

And design/branding matters... that is, if you really want to create places that the people who live/work/learn/play/entertain/make/shop there actually care about.

It’s why I reinforce time and time again for the people I coach in real estate (investors, developers, renovators, owner-occupiers, entrepreneurs, financiers, planners, engineers, architects, stagers, mortgage brokers, lawyers...) that they should spend as much time on the beauty of the spaces and structures--their animation and differentiation--they are creating as on their ROIs, spreadsheets, cap rates, IRRs, compliance with building codes, construction costs, revenue streams and so forth. 

If we gave as much care and thought to what a $400,000 building looked and felt like, how it functioned, as, say, a $600 iPhone, we’d do much better in terms of urban place-making...

We should--as investors, owners, developers, contractors, trades-persons, renovators, users, consumers--be creating “products” that are recognizably branded/differentiated/animated distinctively as our own. There’s no doubt that those that do will have much greater levels of success in terms of obtaining better and happier/more productive tenants/buyers/visitors, getting higher appraised values/sale prices as well as loan to value ratios plus they’ll attract more capital at a lower cost with better terms and conditions. In addition, they’ll add value to the public room (because their built forms relate better to spaces between structures as well as perform better) creating positive externalities for their neighbors, their communities, their cities and towns. 

And whether you are an investor or developer, if you concentrate on one excellent product repeated 30 times, you’ll do a whole lot better, in my experience, than doing 30 different projects, one time each. Human beings just perform better (and so do their products/endeavors) when they do two things--focus and iterate. 

Here’s an excerpt from Sarah William Goldhagen’s Welcome to your world, how the built environment shapes our lives (HarperCollins 2017) that elaborates on this:

Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD, Century 21 Explorer Realty Inc broker, Ottawa Senators founder, Real Estate Investment and Business coach 1-613-762-8884 bruce.firestone@century21.ca twitter.com/ProfBruce profbruce.tumblr.com/archive brucemfirestone.com

MAKING IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

24 in 2024

i haven't seen any of these floating around yet, so i thought i'd get one started! here are 24 books i want to read in 2024 (and a bonus readerly goal):

Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Obsolescence: An Architectural History by Daniel M. Abramson

Offended Sensibilities by Alisa Ganieva

The Night, The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

Dawn by Sevgi Soysal

Trashlands by Alison Stine

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang

The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Black Tide by KC Jones

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

The Ambergris Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

The Great Cities Duology by NK Jemisin

The Spider and her Demons by sydney khoo

A Shining by Jon Fosse

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A Liaguno and Rena Mason

Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka

Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land by Malcolm Devlin

Always North by Vicki Jarrett

At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugu Ono

Bonus Readerly Goal: i'm gonna try REALLY hard to only buy a book after i read five (5), this year (pre-orders DNI). gotta get that backlist under control SOMEhow, right??

notes on the color-coding: the green books are Just Because books (with a couple little red riding hood adjacent retellings in there, which is writing-project-related). a few of these came in a translation subscription box, and i am Interested in Architecture, and i'd love to read more of both this year.

the blue ones are bookmarked for nano prep (i wanna write something fucked up about space this year, i think, it's still cooking). i know it's early for that, but The Vibes™ have to marinate for a while. will probably add some haunted house books to this part of the list!

lastly, the purple ones are driscoll adjacent! filling my words well with related vibes worked well, this year, and i want to do that again next year. since i read through the entirety of my previous ~driscoll vibes~ stack last year, i've been restocking it, so most of these are very recently purchased.

(please note that all this color-coding/explanatory text is absolutely optional and Extra™, if you want to play--you can add it if you'd like, but by no means feel Obligated To Do So lol)

tagging @asexualbookbird, @six-of-ravens/@sixofravens-reads, @agardenandlibrary, @freckles-and-books, and anyone else who wants to play!

[myphillyrealty]

Remembering Louis Kahn’s demolished work in Philadelphia

From a shoe store to an affordable housing complex

Today would have been the 116th birthday of Louis Kahn, considered one of the most influential architects of his time. Most people connect Kahn with the Yale University Art Gallery or the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, while Philadelphians are more familiar with his modernist homes and public housing projects scattered throughout the region.

But despite Kahn’s prolific portfolio, there are a few of his projects in Philly that have been lost, demolished to make way for new mixed-use developments or, in one case, a highway. In honor of his February 20 birthday, here are just three buildings designed by Kahn that are no longer standing in Philly.

American Federation of Labor Medical Services Building

Courtesy of Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania

This granite and glass building was designed by Kahn in 1954 and built three years later, standing at 1326-1334 Vine Street. Because the four-story building’s purpose was to provide free health care to the labor union, Kahn said his goal was to design a proper palace for the working people, according to Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism, by Sarah Wiliams Goldhagen.

It was one of his first large-scale projects that used Vierendeel beams, a V-shaped system of exposed steel and concrete trusses that were commonly used in the 20th century. But despite his efforts, the AFL Medical Services Building never really produced a commanding presence on Vine Street, writes Goldhagen, and it was demolished in 1973 to make way for the Vine Street Expressway.

Mill Creek Project

Courtesy of Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania

Mill Creek was one of the many affordable housing projects in Philadelphia that Kahn had a hand in designing. The earliest drawing dates back to 1950. Built in two phases, the development between 44th and 52nd Streets in West Philly consisted of three 17-story high rises. In 2002, the project was demolished in 2002 to make way for more public housing, this time low-rises. In a letter to the New York Times, Peter D. Schneider wrote:

The Mill Creek public housing complex in Philadelphia, an important example of Kahn’s mature work, was demolished in 2002 in favor of a so-called ”mixed-income” development of suburban-style townhouses that will provide far fewer low-income housing units than the Kahn project it replaces. It is not just 1960’s architecture that is out of style, but also the 1960’s ethos that government has a responsibility to provide for its less fortunate citizens. Both will be missed.

Coward Shoes Company

Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia

This store at 1122 Chestnut Street was co-designed by Kahn and Oscar Stonorov for the shoe company in 1947, a time when Chestnut Street was a thriving retail corridor. The architects designed a modern storefront with a free-floating glass display that aimed to emphasize the shoes over actual architectural elements, wrote William Whitaker in Hidden City Philadelphia.

Yet this stretch of retail began to flounder as tenants and residents began to move to the suburbs in later years. In 2014, the Coward Shoes Store was demolished to make way for a new mixed-use development by Brickstone. The block now features 112 residential units, a Fine Wine and Good Spirits, and Target.

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