John Pekruhn (1915-1998) Collection
Biography/History
Pekruhn, an important Pittsburgh architect of the 1950s and 1960s, has
been a professor at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) and a
Consulting Architect to the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education. He
worked in a careful modern manner that could be both understated and
highly expressive. Pekruhn's St. Thomas in the Field Episcopal Church
in Gibsonia (1957-1958), with its glass facade and winged trusses, was
widely published in the architectural press.
Scope and Content
Drawings dating from 1948-1971 document private homes, an extensive urban renewal project in Rankin, St. Thomas in the Field Episcopal Church in Gibsonia, and demountable classrooms for the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education, which were designed with funding from the Ford Foundation at a time when school populations were expanding rapidly.
Select Bibliography
Pekruhn, John. "A Portable School Program for Pittsburgh." Architectural Record (February 1963): 176-178, 182-183.
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August 20, 1998 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/pekruhn.html
Martin Aurand, Architecture Librarian and Archivist, ma1f@andrew.cmu.edu
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