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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.
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.
May 12, 2016 · Get to Know Philip Johnson’s Iconic Architecture. Explore the signature structures of the influential American architect. By Elizabeth Stamp. May 12, 2016. Even before he began designing...
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)...
From his initial work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, which began in 1930, as the then-new institution’s inaugural curator of architecture and design, to his prominence in architecture as a practitioner, which included being awarded the American Institute of Architects (AIA)’s Gold Medal in 1978 and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize...
Dec 12, 2018 · In “The Man in the Glass House,” a new biography of Philip Johnson, we are asked to contemplate why the impresario of twentieth-century architecture descended into a morass of far-right politics.
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.
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...
Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906, and in the years since has become one of architecture's most potent forces. Before designing his first building at the age of 36, Johnson had been client, critic, author, historian, museum director, but not an architect.
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.
