Draft talk:The Philadelphia School
Should there be an article on "The Philadelphia School" on Wikipedia?
editTHE ARTICLE
A few months back I arranged for an article titled "The Philadelphia School" (a movement in architecture) to be put up on Wikipedia. It was removed.
KEY FIGURES
The Philadelphia School was one of the most important movements in architecture in the second half of the twentieth century and its key figures are among the most important in twentieth century architecture and city planners, most with adulatory articles on Wikipedia, including:
Louis Kahn, with Wikipedia saying: “At the time of his death he was considered by some as ‘America’s foremost living architect.’”
Robert Venturi: “... one of the major architectural figures of the twentieth century.”
Denise Scott Brown: “Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are regarded as among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writing and teaching.”
Romaldo Giurgola: “In 1982, he was awarded the AIA Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects.”
Edmund Bacon: “... his visions shaped today’s Philadelphia, the city in which he was born, to the extent that he is sometimes described as ‘The Father of Modern Philadelphia’.”
Ian McHarg: “McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture, city planning and public policy.”
Similar laudatory comments can be found elsewhere about other Philadelphia School figures, including G. Holmes Perkins, Robert Geddes, August Komendant, Robert Le Ricolais, Stanislawa Nowicki, etc.
REFERRENCES
The primary references for the article were secondary sources from major academic presses including:
Heller, Gregory L., Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). ISBN-10 : 0812223594, ISBN-13 : 978-0812223590
Lobell, John, The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture (Routledge Research in Architecture, August 5, 2022) ISBN-10 : 1032015233, ISBN-13 : 978-1032015231
Pearlman, Jill, Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2007). ISBN-10 : 0813926025, ISBN-13 : 978-0813926025
Rowan, Jan, “Wanting to Be the Philadelphia School,” in Progressive Architecture (April 1961).
Strong, Ann L. and Thomas, George E., eds., The Book of the School: 100 Years, The Graduate School of Fine Arts the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 1990) ISBN-10 : 9991482474, ISBN-13 : 978-9991482477
Primary sources included books by the key figures of the Philadelphia School figures, including Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Ian McHarg, and Edmund Bacon.
MY QUESTION
It seems to me that an article on The Philadelphia School belongs on Wikipedia. So my question in, how might it get there? JohnLobell (talk) 20:21, 21 May 2024 (UTC)