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May 12, 2016 · Even before he began designing buildings, Philip Johnson (1906–2005) was influencing architecture. At age 26, the Cleveland native and Harvard graduate became the first director of the ...
- Elizabeth Stamp
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; the Sculpture Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art; and ...
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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 ...
- David Langdon
May 7, 2024 · Philip Johnson, American architect known both for his promotion of the International Style and for helping define postmodernist architecture. His notable buildings included the Glass House, the AT&T Building, and the Seagram Building, the latter of which he designed with his mentor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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May 17, 2010 · Johnson built the 47-acre estate for himself in New Canaan, Connecticut. The house was the first of fourteen structures that the architect built on the property over a span of fifty years ...
Jul 28, 2023 · Now, let’s take a look at some of his designs. 1. The Glass House. Photograph of the exterior of the Glass House, designed by Philip Johnson between 1946 and 1949, via Dezeen. In 1946, just after he had returned to the United States, Johnson decided to buy a five-acre plot of land in New Canaan.
Johnson was the director at the Department of Architecture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1930-1936 and 1946-1954, and he was a trustee at the Museum of Modern Art starting in 1958. American architect and author.
