Searching for Philadelphia: The Concealed City
David S. Traub, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the Master Class of Louis I. Kahn. From 1970 to 1973, he worked in Kahn s office and was assigned to two important projects: the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven. In 1974, Traub established his own architectural office on Walnut Street. In 2006, he moved to a Victorian carriage house that he restored in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, not far from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.David S. Traub is the author of many articles concerning architectural preservation. He is also the co-founder of the Philadelphia preservation group, Save Our Sites (SOS).