This week our Architecture City Guide is headed to Philadelphia. The list of influential architects that have either worked, studied, or taught in Philadelphia is perhaps the only list that challenges the numbers of Founding Fathers that descended on this city of “Brotherly Love.” A brief list includes Sullivan, Kahn, Wright, Pei, Rudolf, Corbusier, Latrobe, Gropius, Mumford, and Furness. That being said, our list of 12 barely scratches the surface of buildings worth seeing in this great city. We would like to hear about your must not miss buildings in the comment section below.
The Architecture City Guide: Philadelphia list and corresponding map after the break!
- Comcast Center / Robert A. M. Stern Architects
- Split Level House / Qb Design
- Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall at the University of Pennsylvania / KieranTimberlake
- Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus / Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle
- Commerce Square / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
- Morris Arboretum Tree Adventure / Metcalfe Architecture & Design
- Suzanne Roberts Theatre Philadelphia / KieranTimberlake
- Field House at Germantown Friends School / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
- Cira Centre / Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
- BNY Mellon Center / Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)
- Liberty Bell Center / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
- The Modules / Interface Studio Architects
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Onion Flats buildings should be here too. :)
agree
no kahn?? really?
nor venturi?
How about the tons of beautiful historical buildings in Philly too…i.e. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Frank Furness.
Yes, this is an oddly corporate set of buildings. Maybe we need another guide with a little more variety. From a local?
Great comments. I completely agree that one shouldn’t miss works by Onion Flats, Furness, Kahn, Venturi, and the endless list of historic buildings. Keep leaving suggestions as we limited it to only 12 and that clearly doesn’t capture the variety Philadelphia has to offer.
Besides all the menitioned above, Rafael Viñoly’s Kimmel Center, just don’t go there on summer.
Skirkanich Hall – Tod Williams Billie Tsien
Richards Medical Center – Louis Kahn
Kimmel Center – Rafael Viñoly
Ben Franklin Court – Robert Venturi
erdy mchenry piazza in northern libertys
louis kahn lab at penn
louis kahn houses (escherick etc)
F Lloyd Wright Synagogue
Im Pei Society Hill towers
im Pei Townhouses st james place
Todd Williams
Upenn Sarinen
Venturi mothers house
Todd Williams Skirkanich
How about city hall
Frank Furness Library at Upenn
CB3 house is great
PSFS (Lowes hotel)
Tim Mcdonald Capital Flats
Tim Mcdonald Thin house
Tim Mcdonald Rag Flats
House at 4th and Cypress
House at 3rd and Stamper
The Philadelphia Art Museum
it is the ensamble vs the individual that is the the strength.
the PSFS building is one of the greatest buildings of the 20th century anywhere.
100 k house… isnt that in philly?