Institutional & Public Works

A free-standing museum for the university’s collection, then housed in a classroom basement. Galleries the size of a large living room follow one another in art-historical sequence, from the Ancient to the Contemporary, recalling Kahn’s idea of the room as “the place of the mind.” The museum is entered at one end, and visitors finish where they began. Skylit galleries sit above offices, classrooms and a library along an open loggia; small gabinetti for drawings and prints vary the route. Unbuilt.

An earlier scheme on another site, extending a campus walkway across a playing field to join the university’s two separated sections, with the museum along the walk and its entrance through archways under a wing that spans it. Unbuilt.

His first commission for the Department of Recreation: a new playground and community building on an open lot, with ball fields and courts. The roof rises then drops to admit north light through a clerestory into the community room. Renovated in 2015 with artwork by the Mural Arts Program.

Among his most recent buildings for the City: a long addition straddling an existing swimming pool, with a corridor through the building, a multi-purpose room, kitchen and changing rooms opening to the pool, in red brick with precast trim. Praised by the Philadelphia Art Commission.

Two phases of additions, twenty-five years apart, providing rooms for day care, dance, crafts and meetings. The brick additions fit into the quadrants of the existing building; a raw concrete support in the clerestory inverts its pyramidal roof. A relief by Michael Webb was made under the City’s Percent for Art program.

A multi-purpose room with kitchenette and restrooms in colored concrete block matched to the existing building, whose angled form it echoes.

A complete renovation of the two-story brick recreation building: a rebuilt second floor with an activity room, offices and kitchen, a new masonry stair tower and a new gymnasium floor.

An interior renovation of the residents’ social room, which led to commissions for several apartments in the building.

For philanthropist Elaine Levitt Gershman: the restoration of the main lobby with architect David Levitt, a reception desk and offices of his own design, and renderings for restoring the auditorium with a theatrical entry and marquee on Pine Street.

A playground building for the City.

A new community center building and playground.

A recreation building for the City.