Take an insider’s tour of the new renovation and interior expansion designed by Frank Gehry of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s landmark 1928 building led by their Director of Facilities and Operations, Jane Lawson-Bell. Completed in May 2021, the Gehry project opened up the heart of the building, created 20,000 sf of new galleries, and re-opened a grand 640-foot-long corridor for the first time in 50 years. 

Philadelphians were introduced to the value of modern planning in shaping the future of the city during the landmark, Better Philadelphia Exhibition of 1947. This show laid the groundwork for a reform era where public investment in urban renewal and community building brought figures like Edmund Bacon to the forefront of urban design and planning.

When one considers the work of Paul Rudolph (1918-1997), one thinks about his Florida houses of the early 1950s and his landmark works in New Haven, Boston, and Hong Kong. Similarly, Antonin Raymond (1887-1980) is best remembered as a “father of modern Japanese architecture,” and for his sensitive translation of that country’s classical and vernacular architectural traditions into modernism.