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Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building

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Description: Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building
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Description: "Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and...
Looking back on it from our present perspective, what can one say of Lescaze’s career? History has been cruel to it. Although the skyscraper for the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society of 1932 (fig. 58), designed with George Howe (in a design relationship which is still debated), shared in the grand sweep of history, there is not much else now to point to...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.171-185
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00114.013

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