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Acclaimed Philadelphia Architect Robert Venturi to Design Dilworth House Condominiums; a Master Work by a Master Architect on the Square.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 11-FEB-05
Format: Online - approximately 736 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
PHILADELPHIA -- Acclaimed architect Robert Venturi has been chosen to design an elegant contemporary condominium building on Philadelphia's Washington Square. Venturi is considered a master of design in the lineage of Frank Furness, George Howe and Louis Kahn. His landmark Guild House in Philadelphia began a new movement in American architecture.

Dilworth House, which will grace the east side of the Square, is flanked by the Athenaeum and the Lippincott Condominiums (the former L.P. Lippincott Publishers Building). The new building will replace a Chester County-style farmhouse designed by colonial revivalist G. Edwin Brumbaugh for Mayor Richardson Dilworth and his wife in 1957. The Chester County replica replaced two important...

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