Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Elevation sketch
Louis I. Kahn
American, born Estonia. 1901–1974
1958
A graphite-on-tracing-paper elevation sketch in which Louis I. Kahn tests a columned, restrained façade for the Tribune-Review building, probing scale, entrances, and the balance of solid and void.
What strikes you is the steady rhythm of tall penciled columns and narrow window slits stretched across the sheet, with tiny human figures slipped in for scale and the soft, tentative marks of a working drawing.
The drawing captures Kahn’s effort to translate classical monumentality into modern architecture, an important step in the development of his formal language that shaped later civic and institutional buildings.
Medium
Graphite on tracing paper
Dimensions
17 7/8 x 29 1/2" (45.4 x 74.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
374.1967
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