very coincidental....
Just within the last half hour I upload two pages at
http://www.quondam.com/13/1222.htm
http://www.quondam.com/13/1223.htm
which depict an analytical rendition of Kahn's Mikveh Israel
Synagogue (Philadelphia, 1961-70, unexecuted) where the
cylinders of light are replace with reduced versions of
Venturi & Rauch's Tower for Princeton Memorial Park (New
Jersey, 1966, unexecuted).
[Gordon sees the PMP Tower design as Venturi & Rauch's
consummate homage to Kahn, specifically to the Mikveh Israel
Synagogue.
While Gordon studied architecture at Cornell (BA 1968), he
well remembers PERSPECTA 9/10 where Mikveh Israel is
featured, as well as the then forthcoming excerpt from
COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION--"Is it a building split in two
or two buildings coming together."
And who could forget the "Avant-Garde Anachronist" article
on Louis Kahn in TIME June 1966--"Carving in Light" indeed--
http://www.quondam.com/13/1208.htm .
And remember how everyone was eating up the PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE Award Citations January 1967--
http://www.quondam.com/13/1209.htm and follows.]
Thanks Howard.
Really being in Berlin right now would be nice, but where I
really want to be is Bavaria. Do you think some Baron might
hire me to upgrade the website of his Schloss? At least some
pictures of the famous Chinese Room.
[It looks like Leni is finally going to admit to having
Jewish skeleton's in her closet, so to speak.
Ian L. McHarg is the newest member of the Horace Trumbauer
Architecture Fan Club. All the other members enjoy Ian's A
QUEST FOR LIFE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (let's hope David Wallace
read it too). Plus Ian's keeping them all entertained with
his stories about the good old INTERGRAPH days at U of P's
Graduate School of Fine Arts.]
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Just within the last half hour I upload two pages at
http://www.quondam.com/13/1222.htm
http://www.quondam.com/13/1223.htm
which depict an analytical rendition of Kahn's Mikveh Israel
Synagogue (Philadelphia, 1961-70, unexecuted) where the
cylinders of light are replace with reduced versions of
Venturi & Rauch's Tower for Princeton Memorial Park (New
Jersey, 1966, unexecuted).
[Gordon sees the PMP Tower design as Venturi & Rauch's
consummate homage to Kahn, specifically to the Mikveh Israel
Synagogue.
While Gordon studied architecture at Cornell (BA 1968), he
well remembers PERSPECTA 9/10 where Mikveh Israel is
featured, as well as the then forthcoming excerpt from
COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION--"Is it a building split in two
or two buildings coming together."
And who could forget the "Avant-Garde Anachronist" article
on Louis Kahn in TIME June 1966--"Carving in Light" indeed--
http://www.quondam.com/13/1208.htm .
And remember how everyone was eating up the PROGRESSIVE
ARCHITECTURE Award Citations January 1967--
http://www.quondam.com/13/1209.htm and follows.]
Thanks Howard.
Really being in Berlin right now would be nice, but where I
really want to be is Bavaria. Do you think some Baron might
hire me to upgrade the website of his Schloss? At least some
pictures of the famous Chinese Room.
[It looks like Leni is finally going to admit to having
Jewish skeleton's in her closet, so to speak.
Ian L. McHarg is the newest member of the Horace Trumbauer
Architecture Fan Club. All the other members enjoy Ian's A
QUEST FOR LIFE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (let's hope David Wallace
read it too). Plus Ian's keeping them all entertained with
his stories about the good old INTERGRAPH days at U of P's
Graduate School of Fine Arts.]
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