Guild House (Philadelphia)

Guild House
Guild House
	South elevation, 2011
General information
Architectural style	Postmodern
Address	711 Spring Garden St.
Town or city	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Country	United States
Coordinates	39°57′42″N 75°09′03″W / 39.9618°N 75.1507°W
Construction started	1960
Completed	1963
Technical details
Floor count	6
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Venturi and Rauch with Cope and Lippincott
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
Designated	2004

Guild House is a residential building in Philadelphia which is an important and influential work of 20th-century architecture^[2] and was the first major work by Robert Venturi.^[3] Along with the Vanna Venturi House it is considered to be one of the earliest expressions of Postmodern architecture,^[4] and helped establish Venturi as one of the leading architects of the 20th century.^[2]^[5]

The building, which contains apartments for low-income senior citizens, was commissioned by a local Quaker organization, Friends Rehabilitation Program, Inc. and completed in 1963. Employing a combination of nondescript commercial architecture and ironic historical references, Guild House represented a conscious rejection of Modernist ideals and was widely cited in the subsequent development of the Postmodern movement.^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference PresAll was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Gallery, John Andrew (May 13, 2004). "Guilding Philly". Philadelphia City Paper. Archived from the original on January 8, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
^ Levine, Neil (2004). "Robert Venturi and the "Return of Historicism"". In Eggener, Keith L (ed.). American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-30695-7. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
^ ^a ^b LeBlanc, Sydney (2000). The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 250 Key 20th Century American Buildings. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 111. ISBN 0-393-73050-6. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
^ Marter, Joan, ed. (2011). The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-19-533579-8. Retrieved October 29, 2012.

[PresAll-1] Cite error: The named reference PresAll was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[gallery04-2] Gallery, John Andrew (May 13, 2004). "Guilding Philly". Philadelphia City Paper. Archived from the original on January 8, 2012. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

[levine-3] Levine, Neil (2004). "Robert Venturi and the "Return of Historicism"". In Eggener, Keith L (ed.). American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-30695-7. Retrieved October 29, 2012.

[leblanc-4] LeBlanc, Sydney (2000). The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 250 Key 20th Century American Buildings. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. p. 111. ISBN 0-393-73050-6. Retrieved October 29, 2012.

[5] Marter, Joan, ed. (2011). The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-19-533579-8. Retrieved October 29, 2012.

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