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No. 184 (June, 1912)
DOI Artikel:P., C. M.: The annual architectural exhibition in Philadelphia
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Annual Architectural Exhibition in Philadelphia
The annual architectural
EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA
The allied arts cede their place al-
most entirely to architecture in the
Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the Philadel-
phia Chapter of the American Institute of Archi-
tects and the T-Square Club, which opened on the
fourteenth of April in the galleries of the Penn-
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Further, such
architecture as is shown, in photographs and
renderings, is nearly all by Philadelphia archi-
tects.
Among the buildings, other than private houses,
one of the most thoroughly commendable is “The
Provost’s Tower,” designed by Cope and Stew-
ardson as part of the group at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Few American architects, if any, have so
strongly or so sympathetically grasped the spirit
of the Oxford and Cambridge type of English
university building as this firm. The University
of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Bryn Mawr may
well be proud of their recent architectural ac-
quisitions which, as befits any college building,
can only be improved by time and the growth of
vines. By contrast with this splendid tower,
which is at once impressive and charming, the two
scale models by Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson,
designed for the graduate college of Princeton,
seem, in spite of their excellent arrangement, to
be hard, angular and over-ecclesiastical. In this
same adapted English academic style is a pleas-
ing rendering, by John T. Windrim, of the Thomas
W. Evans Museum building.
Again in the same vein is a rendering of a
cloister and refectory for the Freshman Dormi-
tories at Princeton by Day Brothers and Klauder,
who are, to judge from this drawing, making a
consistant addition to the already excellent col-
lection of appropriate buildings at that college.
Simon and Basset exhibited an interesting
sketch of a new building for the Manufacturers’
Club in Philadelphia and Brown and Whiteside,
of Wilmington, in a photograph of their treat-
ment of a flower shop,
showed an ingenious and
decorative scheme for a
commercial facade.
Practically no competi-
tion drawings were shown
excepting a group of pro-
jects for the Perry Mem-
orial. In spite of a vastly
impressive and exception-
ally rendered sketch for
this by Nelson and Van
Wagenen, the competition
was won by J. H. Freed-
lander, of New York. Mr.
Freedlander’s name also
appeared on a well-studied
design for the Portland
Public Auditorium—a de-
sign showing a nice bal-
ance of strength, interest
and conservatism.
Before turning to the
country-house design,
Messrs. Mellor and Meigs, Architects
A RESIDENCE AT ST. DAVID’S, PA.
Messrs. Thomas, Churchman and Molitor, Architects
THE ENTRANCE FRONT
COUNTRY HOUSE AT WYNDMOOR, PA.
XCVII
The annual architectural
EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA
The allied arts cede their place al-
most entirely to architecture in the
Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the Philadel-
phia Chapter of the American Institute of Archi-
tects and the T-Square Club, which opened on the
fourteenth of April in the galleries of the Penn-
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Further, such
architecture as is shown, in photographs and
renderings, is nearly all by Philadelphia archi-
tects.
Among the buildings, other than private houses,
one of the most thoroughly commendable is “The
Provost’s Tower,” designed by Cope and Stew-
ardson as part of the group at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Few American architects, if any, have so
strongly or so sympathetically grasped the spirit
of the Oxford and Cambridge type of English
university building as this firm. The University
of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Bryn Mawr may
well be proud of their recent architectural ac-
quisitions which, as befits any college building,
can only be improved by time and the growth of
vines. By contrast with this splendid tower,
which is at once impressive and charming, the two
scale models by Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson,
designed for the graduate college of Princeton,
seem, in spite of their excellent arrangement, to
be hard, angular and over-ecclesiastical. In this
same adapted English academic style is a pleas-
ing rendering, by John T. Windrim, of the Thomas
W. Evans Museum building.
Again in the same vein is a rendering of a
cloister and refectory for the Freshman Dormi-
tories at Princeton by Day Brothers and Klauder,
who are, to judge from this drawing, making a
consistant addition to the already excellent col-
lection of appropriate buildings at that college.
Simon and Basset exhibited an interesting
sketch of a new building for the Manufacturers’
Club in Philadelphia and Brown and Whiteside,
of Wilmington, in a photograph of their treat-
ment of a flower shop,
showed an ingenious and
decorative scheme for a
commercial facade.
Practically no competi-
tion drawings were shown
excepting a group of pro-
jects for the Perry Mem-
orial. In spite of a vastly
impressive and exception-
ally rendered sketch for
this by Nelson and Van
Wagenen, the competition
was won by J. H. Freed-
lander, of New York. Mr.
Freedlander’s name also
appeared on a well-studied
design for the Portland
Public Auditorium—a de-
sign showing a nice bal-
ance of strength, interest
and conservatism.
Before turning to the
country-house design,
Messrs. Mellor and Meigs, Architects
A RESIDENCE AT ST. DAVID’S, PA.
Messrs. Thomas, Churchman and Molitor, Architects
THE ENTRANCE FRONT
COUNTRY HOUSE AT WYNDMOOR, PA.
XCVII