Title & Author:

Architectural Constants / [presented by] Romaldo Giurgola (Mitchell/Giurgola Architects).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1984.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Romaldo Giurgola, 1984 -- Philadelphia Life Insurance Company, 1961 -- Insurance Of North America, Philadelphia, 1975 -- Insurance Of North America HQ & United Fund HQ, Seen From The Parkway, Philadelphia -- United Fund HQ -- Penn Mutual Tower, Philadelphia, 1975 -- Tredyffrin Public Library, Strafford, Pennsylvania, 1976 -- Elementary School, Aviano, Italy, 1981 -- Lang Music Building, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1974 -- Lang Wainwright State Office Complex, St. Louis, Missouri, 1981 -- Worship Assembly Building, Benedictine Society Of St. Bede, Peru, Illinois, 1973 -- Columbus High School, Columbus, Indiana, 1973 -- Geology Library, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1980 -- Corporate HQ For A.B. Volvo, Gothenberg, Sweden, 1984 -- Canberra, Australia -- Parliament House, Canberra, 1981 -- 1987. Site Plan -- Parliament House, Canberra, 1981 -- 1987. View From The South -- Parliament House, Canberra, 1981 -- 1987. East Elevation Of House Of Representatives -- Parliament House, Canberra, 1981 -- 1987. Construction In 1983 -- Parliament House, Canberra, 1981 -- 1987. North Elevation.

Summary:

Romaldo Giurgola is an academician trained in Europe and reared in the Beaux Arts tradition. Born in Italy, he was educated in the University of Rome and then at Columbia, New York, and became an American citizen in 1958. He acknowledges a deep debt to his teacher Louis Kahn, about whom he subsequently wrote a book. Since 1958 he has been in practice in Philadelphia and New York with Ehrman Mitchell (Mitchell & Giurgola), winning many awards, and he has taught in many US universities and at the American Academy in Rome. In his talk he speaks of his convictions about architecture and its four constants - the definition of place, space as a fundamental of architecture, the link with the past, and the aesthetic environment - and he illustrates these with some of his own work including the competition-winning Parliament buildings at Canberra.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Giurgola, Romaldo, narrator.