Under Construction
What was going up and getting fixed this summer.
The Letter A
A daughter and her father’s creative connection.
Living Lou
Making a home in a Louis Kahn house.
Fraternal Twins
West Philadelphia’s unmatched pairs.
The Building Is the Product
Brick and mortar marketing in Building Brands.
Her Architect
Harriet Pattison GLA’67 looks back at herself and Lou Kahn.
His Architect
Effort under way to reprint a 1962 collection of Kahn art.
City Shaper
K—A. Eugene Kohn Ar’53 GAr’57—tells KPF’s story.
American Byzantine
Andrew Gould has been called “America’s foremost Orthodox church designer.” Melding deep conservatism with romantic fantasy, his work is the architectural version of historical fiction.
Loyal Classmen
At the turn of the 20th century, Julian Abele and Louis Magaziner—a black man and an immigrant Jew—were standouts in Penn’s School of Fine Arts about to launch distinguished careers in architecture. They were also beginning what would be a lifelong friendship. A Magaziner descendant and Abele admirer investigates what brought them together.
Hill Town
Watercolor memories.
The Story of Liang and Lin
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin came to Penn at the height of Philadelphia’s Beaux-Arts building boom. They returned to revolutionary China with ideas that made a lasting mark on the development of architecture in the People’s Republic.
A Man and His Environment
A half-century after the publication of his pathbreaking manifesto, Design With Nature, Ian McHarg’s work is more urgent, timely—and influential—than ever.
My Own Private Iowa
Buildings under a big sky.
A Change in the Weather
CAC explores preservation in a changing climate.
Creative Minds: Assemble
Journal LA+ takes on big themes, multiple disciplines.
Building the Case for Architecture
Marc Kushner C’99 believes in the power of architecture.
“We’re the Stewards of This Wonderful Collection”
Mark Kocent C’82 GCP’91 GFA’91 named University architect.
Operation Gingerbread
Perry Benson GAr’73 helped document Cape May’s historic buildings.
A Space for Remembering
June 5 Memorial Park honors victims of deadly wall collapse.
Cret Day
Architect Paul Cret’s legacy in Philadelphia.
Political Science and Economics Shift North
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics opens.
Wharton on Woodland Walk
Construction under way on new Wharton building.
The Power and the Glory
An architect explores Mexico’s early churches.