Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, 1936-2021
•    Série(s): Landscape architecture projects, 1947-2018
•      Projet: Mills Creek Public Housing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1952-1953), 1952-1953

Personnes et institutions:

• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)
• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (landscape architect)
• Dan Urban Kiley (landscape architect)
• Louis I. Kahn (architect)

Titre:

Mills Creek Public Housing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1952-1953)

Date:

1952-1953

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 2 reprographic copies

Présentation du contenu:
This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for the Mill Creek Public Housing Complex between 40th Street, Aspen Street, and Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Oberlander worked on this project in the early 1950s as Dan Kiley's associate. They both were consulting for Louis Kahn's office, Kahn, McAllister, Braik, & Day. The first phase of the project consisted of a complex of three seventeen-storey apartment towers accomodating 218 units on a four-acre site. The landscape design consisted of a system of pedestrian areas to connect the site with the city, including a central alley linking Fairmount Avenue to a common green space. Trees to provide shade were planted around the parking spaces and the housing towers. The project was completed in 1954, but most of the landscaping by Kiley and Oberlander was never realized. The Mill Creek complex was demolished in 2002 to make space for the new low-rise public housing development.

The project series contains only two reprographic copies of landscape plans.

Source:
Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.

Numéro de référence:

AP075.S1.1952.PR02

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Philadelphia Pennsylvania États-Unis

Contient:

• AP075.S1.1952.PR02.001, Design development drawing and working drawing, Mills Creek, 46th and Aspen Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1952-1953