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The Glass House, built between 1949 and 1995 by famed architect Philip Johnson in New Canaan, Connecticut, is one of the nation’s greatest modern architectural landmarks. Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, the Glass House’s exterior walls are made of glass with no interior walls, a radical departure from houses of the time.
Jan 25, 2005 · Philip Johnson was born into wealth in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, Homer Johnson, was an attorney and his mother, Louise Pope, came from a distinguished family including noted industrialists and philanthropists. He had two older siblings, Jeannette and Alfred (who died at age four), and a younger sister, Theodate.
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 ...
Philip Johnson was born of July 8, 1906, in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the Harvard University, and graduated in 1930, with a degree in Philosophy. In 1932, Johnson was appointed the Director of the Department of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The same year, he collaborated with Henry-Russell Hitchcock, to compile their ...
Philip Johnson ’ 27 (’30), B.Arch.’43—the celebrated architect of the former Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan’s Seagram Building, the AT&T Building (now 550 Madison Avenue), and his own Glass House residence—grew obsessed as an undergraduate by Nietzsche’s vision of super-men who could transcend morality to live life as art.
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 ...
Philip Johnson, though having left a great legacy of architectural thought and design, was a true proponent of a capitalist architecture, bereft of a socialist direction. Philip Johnson’s constantly evolving style and his association with numerous architectural and design movements were a clear depiction of his eclectic thoughts and ...
