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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, 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.
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...
Jun 18, 2024 · Philip Johnson, celebrated architect of iconic structures such as the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan’s Seagram Building, the AT&T Building (now 550 Madison Avenue), and his Glass House residence, led a life marked by extraordinary influence and deep controversy.
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.
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...
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 Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.
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.
