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Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, typical floor plan

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Description: Richards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, typical floor plan
TitleRichards Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania, typical floor plan
Creator nameKahn, Louis Isidore
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator roleArchitect
Creation date1957–1964
Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
MaterialsUnknown
DimensionsUnknown
LocationLouis I. Kahn Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsArchitecture--Designs and plansLaboratoriesArchitecture, Modern
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Medical Research Building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
William H. Jordy
Description: "Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and...
"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture
A real building: that favorite adjective of nineteenth-century architectural morality comes first to mind when confronting Kahn’s achievement. It is real in its tangibility; real in structure and materials; real in the inevitability with which it unfolds from the basic idea of its conception...
Author
William H. Jordy
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2005 by the Trustees of Columbia University
Related print edition pages: pp.235-246
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00114.016
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16316&redirecttoanchor=22043
Chapter subject tags:Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974Architecture, Modern--20th centuryArchitecture--United States--History--20th centuryWright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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