{"id":121118,"date":"2021-03-01T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T03:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/?p=121118"},"modified":"2021-03-01T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T03:08:06","slug":"a-bold-venture-for-health-klings-lankenau-hospital-and-the-architecture-of-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/a-bold-venture-for-health-klings-lankenau-hospital-and-the-architecture-of-community\/","title":{"rendered":"A BOLD VENTURE FOR HEALTH: KLING\u2019S LANKENAU HOSPITAL AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMMUNITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Block, PhD<br \/>\nThursday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m.<br \/>\nFree, no registration required<br \/>\nOnline via Zoom, see below for access information<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121119\" src=\"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-25-Kling-SAH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-25-Kling-SAH.jpg 600w, https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-03-25-Kling-SAH-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nLankenau Hospital was, perhaps, the most modern community hospital in America when it opened near the beginning of suburban Philadlephia\u2019s prestigious Main Line in December of 1953. Wowed by its Atomic Age medical technology and focus on preventive health, the local press hailed Lankenau as an entirely \u201cnew kind of hospital.\u201d The editors of Architectural Record and Progressive Architecture, meanwhile, awarded Kling\u2019s design national honors for transcending the merely functional requirements of a healthcare facility. To them, Lankenau was \u201creal architecture.\u201d Edmund Bacon, Philadelphia\u2019s famous master planner, was so impressed by Kling\u2019s model for Lankenau that after seeing it he invited Kling to work with him on Center City\u2019s urban renewal. Lankenau was thus the beginning of Kling\u2019s transformation from a young hospital architect into the owner of what would become Philadelphia&#8217;s most prominent corporate architecture firm.<\/p>\n<p>While historians tend to think of corporate architecture as placeless practice and overlook the importance of regional firms in the evolution of what is now a global design industry, Lankenau was a complicated, elite-directed exercise in middle-class community building, one that projected an image of scientifically administered healthcare in order to manage the process of postwar suburbanization. Central to this image was the architect himself. Kling not only served as a designer, but he also appeared as a glamorous \u201cnew man\u201d in fundraising and promotional material that aimed to excite Philadelphia\u2019s upper class. In reading the design of Lankenau alongside the use of Kling\u2019s persona in Lankenau\u2019s \u201cA Bold Venture for Health\u201d fundraising campaign, this presentation will attempt to complicate the prevailing theory of corporate architecture as placeless practice with a locally-informed case study in the architecture of community development.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Block is an architectural historian and preservationist who received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught courses in architectural history and American Studies at Berkeley and, most recently, at Princeton. His research focuses on the history of American architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the development of architecture as a profession. This presentation is part of a book-length project about Vincent Kling and the figure of the corporate architect. He writes a newsletter about this project entitled &#8220;The Architect as Doer&#8221; (https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/kpb\/archive). He was born in Lankenau Hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second talk in The Elusive Philadelphia School; The Many Guises of Philadelphia\u2019s Modernism lecture series. Keep your eye on our website for future talks in this series www.philachaptersah.org&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Join Zoom Meeting<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/Jefferson.zoom.us\/j\/95789229467<br \/>\nMeeting ID: 957 8922 9467<\/p>\n<p>One tap mobile<br \/>\n+13126266799,,95789229467# US (Chicago)<br \/>\n+16468769923,,95789229467# US (New York)<\/p>\n<p>Dial by your location<br \/>\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)<br \/>\n+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)<br \/>\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)<br \/>\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)<br \/>\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)<br \/>\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)<\/p>\n<p>Meeting ID: 957 8922 9467<\/p>\n<p>Find your local number: https:\/\/Jefferson.zoom.us\/u\/agaTtfVVE<\/p>\n<p>Join by SIP<br \/>\n95789229467@zoomcrc.com<\/p>\n<p>Join by H.323<br \/>\n162.255.37.11 (US West)<br \/>\n162.255.36.11 (US East)<br \/>\nMeeting ID: 957 8922 9467<\/p>\n<p>Join by Skype for Business<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/Jefferson.zoom.us\/skype\/95789229467<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Block, PhD Thursday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. Free, no registration required Online via Zoom, see below for access information Lankenau Hospital was, perhaps, the most modern community hospital in America when it opened near the beginning of suburban Philadlephia\u2019s prestigious Main Line in December of 1953. 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