Description:Brought out initially on the occasion of the national convention of the American Institute of Architects in the spring of 1961, this book is the first general survey of Philadelphia architecture to appear. It begins with Thomas Holme's plan of 1682, one of the earliest comprehensive designs for an American community, and ends with Louis Kahn's Medical Research Building, completed in 1960 and recognized as one of the most important structures to come out of the 1950s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings. To get started finding Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
352
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Univerisity of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
Release
1961
ISBN
Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings
Description: Brought out initially on the occasion of the national convention of the American Institute of Architects in the spring of 1961, this book is the first general survey of Philadelphia architecture to appear. It begins with Thomas Holme's plan of 1682, one of the earliest comprehensive designs for an American community, and ends with Louis Kahn's Medical Research Building, completed in 1960 and recognized as one of the most important structures to come out of the 1950s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings. To get started finding Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.