ABSTRACT
Several of the citizens dramatically transformed Philadelphia in the early 1950s both politically and architecturally. Interestingly, only Romaldo Giurgola was able to leave his own imprint on Philadelphia's architectural heritage, erecting such buildings as the United Fund Building, INA, and the Penn Mutual Tower. Louis I. Kahn was born in Kuresaare on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. Kahn taught architecture at Yale in the 1950s and was commissioned to do the Yale University Art Gallery in 1950. In 1954 Kahn was commissioned to design what is now referred to as the Trenton Bath Houses in Ewing, New Jersey and in 1962 for the most ambitious building of his career, the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Robert Venturi was born in Philadelphia in 1925 and graduated from Princeton University in 1947. He received the Rome Prize in 1954, apprenticed with Eero Saarinen and Louis I. Kahn, and began his own firm, Venturi Short, with William Short in 1960.
