Philip Johnson

Mark Lamster’s book recounts the long and productive life of an architect who had an outsize influence on the art form throughout the 20th century.

Deceptively unassuming, the architect Philip Johnson’s Rockefeller Guest House is an unspoiled minimalist gem.

Nikil Saval writes about the twentieth-century architect Philip Johnson, who is the subject of “The Man in the Glass House,” a new biography written by Mark Lamster.

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"To be in the presence of a great work of architecture is such a satisfaction that you can go hungry for days. To create a feeling such as mine in Chartres Cathedral when I was 13 is the aim of architecture." Philip Johnson didn't begin formal study of architecture until he was 34 years old, but he had already made an impact as the first director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and as co-author of The International Style, the book that gave a name to the movement that dominated world architecture for the next 50 years. Not content to be the foremost American publicist of the movement, Johnson soon became its foremost American practitioner. Throughout the 1950s and '60s, Johnson delighted some and outraged others with sleek modern designs like those of his celebrated Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, the Seagram Building (a collaboration with his mentor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) in New York, and the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. In his 70s, with a long, successful career behind him, Johnson shocked critics and colleagues alike by a sudden shift to the new "postmodern" style associated with a far younger group of architects. Johnson's design for the AT&T headquarters in New York City is one of the most celebrated works of the new school. When he was young, Philip Johnson dreamed of writing the history of architecture, and so he did, but who dreamed that he would make so much of that history himself?

Philip Johnson (1906--2005) played a decisive role in defining American architecture in the twentieth century. He pioneered and championed the two architectural movements that have most affected the urban landscape during the last sixty years: the international style and postmodernism, or the reintroduction of the use of historic styles in contemporary architectural design.

The prolific 20th-century American architect’s work, ranked by the author of Johnson’s mega-biography.

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 archit

Philip Johnson: Philip Johnson, American architect known both for his promotion of the International Style and for helping redefine postmodernist architecture.

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect. He is best known for his works of Modern architecture, including the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and his works of postmodern architecture, particularly 550 Madison Avenue which was d