Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Entrance elevation sketch
Louis I. Kahn
American, born Estonia. 1901–1974
1958
A crayon-on-tracing-paper study by Louis Kahn that explores the Tribune-Review building’s entrance elevation, testing how monumental masses and openings create scale and a sequence of entry.
The drawing strikes you with its blocky, sculptural volumes rendered in tonal hatching, a tiny human figure set against a deep recessed doorway, and a small axial perspective at the right that suggests a processional passage through layered openings.
The sketch embodies Kahn’s midcareer investigation of weight, light, and the choreography of served and servant spaces, a formative approach that helped reshape modern civic architecture toward a more monumental, spatially expressive modernism.
Medium
Crayon on tracing paper
Dimensions
12 x 13 1/2" (30.5 x 34.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
377.1967
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