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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern 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...
Jul 4, 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.
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.
Jun 18, 2024 · Philip Johnson, renowned for designing iconic structures like the Seagram Building and the Glass House, had a career marked by both brilliance and controversy. Known for his profound influence on American architecture, Johnson’s legacy is complicated by his Nazi sympathies in the 1930s.
Johnson was born in 1906 to a wealthy and highly educated family in Cleveland, Ohio. He would go on to Harvard for an undergraduate degree in philosophy and classics (1923-30) and then graduate studies in architecture (1940-43).
Jan 25, 2005 · January 25, 2005. For more than 50 years, Philip Johnson was one of the most influential figures in American design and architecture. After graduating with a degree in philosophy from Harvard in 1930, Johnson became founder and director of the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the first museum ...
