Guild House | |
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![]() South elevation, 2011 | |
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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 |
Designated | 2004[1] |
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 Employing a combination of nondescript commercial architecture and ironic historical references, Guild House represented a conscious rejection of Modernist ideals and was widely cited in the subsequent development of the Postmodern movement.[4]
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