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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.
May 12, 2016 · Explore the signature structures of the influential American architect. Even before he began designing buildings, Philip Johnson (1906–2005) was influencing architecture. At age 26, the ...
May 7, 2024 · Philip Johnson (born July 8, 1906, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died January 25, 2005, New Canaan, Connecticut) was an American architect and critic known both for his promotion of the International Style and, later, for his role in defining postmodernist architecture.
He was co-curator with Hitchcock on the seminal 1932 show of modern architecture and book, The International Style, and later with Barr on Machine Art (1934) as well as retrospectives on Frank Lloyd Wright (1947) and Mies van der Rohe (1949), among many other exhibitions.
Dec 12, 2018 · Coughlin’s in-house designer was the museum curator and emerging architect Philip Johnson, who was himself a Fascist. Before that point, Johnson was renowned as a propagandist for a...
Jan 12, 2019 · Emerging bravely from the glassy sea of Madison Avenue skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan, the open pediment atop Philip Johnson and John Burgee ’s 1984 AT&T Building (now the Sony Tower)...
Mar 3, 2020 · Philip Johnson is most celebrated for his role as the first director of the Architecture Department at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and for his home in Connecticut, the famous Glass House.
Philip Johnson was a pioneer of Modernism, a design movement that sought to break away from traditional architectural styles. Characterized by clean lines, open spaces, and a rejection of ornamentation, Modernist architecture embraced functionality and simplicity.
The house, which ushered the International Style into residential American architecture, is iconic because of its innovative use of materials and its seamless integration into the landscape. Philip Johnson, who lived in the Glass House from 1949 until his death in 2005, conceived of it as half a composition, completed by the Brick House. Both ...
Jul 8, 2017 · When he was awarded the first ever Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979, the jury described Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) as someone who “produced consistent and significant...
