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John Rauch (architect)
John Keiser Rauch Jr. (October 23, 1930 – August 16, 2022) was an American architect. He was a co-founder of the firm Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown, with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Early life and education John K. Rauch Jr. was born on October 23, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1948, he graduated from Lower Rancocas Valley Regional High School in Mount Holly. As a young man, Rauch helped his father in building a log cabin in Medford Lakes. This and other work in construction as a teenager inspired his interest in architecture and construction as an adult. Rauch attended Wesleyan University for two years. In 1951, he left and joined the Army where he served as a military policeman. Rauch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Architecture in 1958. Career In the summer of 1956, Rauch worked as a draftsman at an architectural firm in Pennsauken, New Jersey. In the summer of 1957, he worked for an architect in Ocean City, New Jersey. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
