Richard W. Longstreth Bücher

This comprehensive study of Philadelphia's architecture, originally published in 1974, documents buildings from Colonial times to the twentieth century. Based on extensive research, including archival searches and street explorations, it lists around 450 buildings and locations, with approximately 240 illustrated by contemporary photographs. Each entry includes the building's location, construction date, and architect, along with details of significant alterations where applicable. Brief commentaries provide historical context and critical evaluations of architectural merits. The book opens with a historical overview of Philadelphia's architecture and planning, followed by a guide divided into seven sections: Center City, Fairmount Park, North Philadelphia, the Northeast, South Philadelphia, West Philadelphia (including the University of Pennsylvania campus), and Germantown. The authors emphasize area development and general trends while showcasing the diversity of styles, featuring individualized buildings alongside more typical examples. Notable architects represented include Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton from the eighteenth century, William Strickland and Frank Furman from the nineteenth, and Louis I. Kahn and Robert Venturi from the twentieth. This work serves as an invaluable resource for both tourists exploring the city and those wishing to experience Philadelphia's architectural heritage from afar.

The catalogue World of Malls is devoted to a type of building that was invented in the United States just less than sixty years ago and quickly spread throughout the world. Due to urban planning’s increasing orientation toward the automobile, the mall became a substitute for lost urbanity. Yet what direction is the development of the shopping mall taking today? On the one hand, there continue to be spectacular new openings in America, Asia, the United Arab Emirates, and Europe. At the same time, however, many malls are empty, and some are being converted and repurposed. There is hardly any other building typology that is being discussed as controversially: does the shopping mall mean the death of the city, or does it stimulate its revitalization? In their essays, urban planners, economists, and architectural historians such as Anette Baldauf, Bob Bruegmann, Dietrich Erben, Richard Longstreth, Alain Thierstein, June Williamson, and Sophie Wolfrum examine the transformation processes of the shopping mall from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-4138-5) Exhibition: Architekturmuseum der TU München in der Pinakothek der Moderne, 13.7.–22.10.2016