philip johnson
Philip Johnson outside the Glass House in 1998. [1]
Philip Johnson (born 1906) was an American architectural critic and historian and a practicing architect. [2]
Philip Johnson House, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942 to 1943. [3]
It is for those interested in the work of architect Philip Johnson and will be edited by Hilary Lewis, the Philip Johnson Scholar of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. [4]
That year he and Hitchcock mounted the first International Exhibition of Architecture, showing the work of such major modern figures as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. [2]
I majored in philosophy at Harvard, and I didn’t know if I wanted to be a teacher or a theoretician or just what, but I was always interested in art and architecture to look at. [5]
After his home was completed Johnson began moving away from Mies and that can be clearly illustrated by the guest house he built for his home in 1952. [6]
With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades. [7]
He received an A. B. in architectural history from Harvard University in 1930 and upon graduation became the Director of the Department of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. [3]
Mr. Johnson with his Glass House in July, 1949 in New Canaan, Conn. [1]
Johnson’s early influence as a practicing architect was his use of glass; his masterpiece was the Glass House (1949) he designed as his own residence in New Canaan, Connecticut, a profoundly influential work. [7]
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III Guest House, at New York, New York, 1950. [3]
Johnson began his career as an architectural critic and historian in 1931, when he became director of the architectural department at the newly formed Museum of Modern Art in New York. [2]
His 90th birthday, in July 1996, was marked by symposiums, lectures, an outpouring of essays in his honor and back-to-back dinners at two venerable New York institutions he had played a major role in creating: the Museum of Modern Art, whose department of architecture and design he joined in 1930, and the Four Seasons Restaurant, which he designed as part of the Seagram Building in 1958. [1]
Museum for Pre-Columbian Art, Dumbarton Oaks, at Washington, D.C., 1963. [3]
Sources:
[1] New York Architecture Images- Philip Johnson
[2] Philip Johnson: Biography from Answers.com
[3] Great Buildings Online: Philip Johnson
[4] Philip Johnson
[5] Philip Johnson Interview — Academy of Achievement
[6] 20th Century Architecture: Philip Johnson
[7] Philip Johnson - Wikipedia