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Diagonal Virtual
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Founder and Director
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EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture, 1963 University of Pennsylvania, School of Fine Arts
ARCHITECTURE and INTERIOR DESIGN Founder/Owner: Joel Levinson Associates – Architecture and Interior Design, formed in 1967
HONORS AND AWARDS Levinson’s drawings, correspondence, and models are currently being collected and preserved by the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania. Publication of a book is planned: THE HOUSES OF JOEL LEVINSON
Arbor House was included in a tour of the works of Louis I. Kahn and the ‘Philadelphia School’ organized by the Society of Architectural Historians and the Architectural Archives at Penn. The tour also included works by Robert Venturi, I.M. Pei, Mitchell/Giurgola, Frank Furness, and George Howe. 2008
Projects exhibited at the University of Pennsylvania, The Legacy of the Philadelphia School: An Exhibit of the Work of Students and Colleagues of Louis I. Kahn, 1991
Arbor House exhibited at Columbia University’s Center for the study of American Architecture. The exhibit, American Architecture: Innovation and Tradition, became a national traveling exhibition. 1983
Hillside House exhibited at Yale University, Exhibition of 7 Projects, the Ideology of Making Architecture, 1981
Semi-finalist, Arnold W. Brunner Grant, New York Chapter, AIA, 1979
“40 under 40”, selected by Architecture and Urbanism for the 1977 issue honoring work by 40 architects under 40 years of age, 1977
Honored by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in their lecture series The Architecture of our Times, 1975. Levinson lectured to Institute members in his Hillside House, Rydal, PA
National Design Award, Western Wood Products Association, 1972
First Prize for the R. M. Shoemaker offices in Philadelphia Magazine’s first Office Interior Design Contest
Brasler residence selected for tour by the Society of Architectural Historians and the International Committee for the Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement
“Samuel J. Huckel Prize in Architecture,” University of Pennsylvania, 1962
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Chairman, Urban Design Division, Mayor’s Science and Technology Advisory Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1972
Urban Design Consultant, Franklin Institute Research Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1972-1976
Board of Directors, Philadelphia Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 1975-1976.
Trustee and Chairman of Buildings and Grounds Committee, Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, 1976-83
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Pennsylvania, School of Fine Arts, “Energy Conservation and Architecture”, 1973-1974
Visiting Architectural Juror: University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and Temple University
PUBLICATIONS
Levinson’s architectural and interior design work has been published in several national and international professional journals including:
Progressive Architecture, in an article about “Philadelphia’s Phantom School – Architects after Kahn” Architecture and Urbanism
GA (Global Architecture), The Arbor House
Japan Architect
Steel Institute Journal
Philadelphia Magazine
Philadelphia Home Magazine
Building Stone Magazine, The Hillside House, 1982
Levinson’s work has also been profiled in several books and newspaper articles including:
Architecture in Philadelphia by Teitelman and Longstreth
A Guide to Twentieth Century Contemporary Architecture, by Carole Rifkind
Encyclopedia of Energy-Efficient Building Design: 391 Practical Case Studies, by Dr. Kaiman Lee
High Access Homes, Rizzoli International
Dream Houses of Greater Philadelphia
Spectacular Houses of Greater Philadelphia
Chestnut Hill Local, Local Renaissance Man Gets a Life’s Work Show, 2011
AUTHOR
Outdoor Rooms, GA Houses, 1982
The Hillside House, text for Exhibit at Yale University, 1981, reprinted in Building Stone Journal, 1982
Architectural Ornament, text for the Architectural League Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1980
Using The Sun To Brighten The Crisis, AIA Journal, 1974
Eye Of An Architect, a column on design and other topics published in the CHESTNUT HILL LOCAL since 2012
Historian and writer for The Historic Gowen Estate House Tour
Catalogue editor, Broad Street Comes Alive, The Architectural League of the Philadelphia Art Alliance
The Reluctant Hunter, a novel set in worn-torn Bosnia, 2012
PHOTOGRAPHY
In addition to various commissions, Levinson’s work has been exhibited at the following venues:
One Man Show, Sid Meyers Gallery, Philadelphia
Member Show, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Honorable Mention
Retrospective, Nichols Berg Gallery, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 2011
Gaudi and the Spanish Landscape, Offices of Elfant-Wissahickon, Philadelphia
One Man Show, University City Science Center Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Broad Street Comes Alive, Exhibit Creator and Catalog Author and Editor, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1978
Philadelphia Renaissance, Executive Director of a City Beautification Program funded in part by The William Penn Foundation, 1975
Avenue of National History Development Group, Founder and Director
SpaceGroup, Founder of a salon focused on discussing cosmology, astrophysics, cognition, and philosophy
The Architectural League of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Founder and Director, 1977
Spaetrium House: Commissioned by the American Wood Council to design a prototype energy conservation house
Co-researcher, Broad Street Corridor Solar Energy Study, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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