The Architecture Of Philip Johnson

Author : Mark Lamster
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316453493

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The Man in the Glass House by Mark Lamster Pdf

A "smoothly written and fair-minded" (Wall Street Journal) biography of architect Philip Johnson -- a finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award. When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable and influential figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading architects with his famous Glass House in New Caanan, CT, and his controversial AT&T Building in NYC, among many others in nearly every city in the country -- but his most natural role was as a consummate power broker and shaper of public opinion. Johnson introduced European modernism -- the sleek, glass-and-steel architecture that now dominates our cities -- to America, and mentored generations of architects, designers, and artists to follow. He defined the era of "starchitecture" with its flamboyant buildings and celebrity designers who esteemed aesthetics and style above all other concerns. But Johnson was also a man of deep paradoxes: he was a Nazi sympathizer, a designer of synagogues, an enfant terrible into his old age, a populist, and a snob. His clients ranged from the Rockefellers to televangelists to Donald Trump. Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A rollercoaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful, and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.

Author : Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847848362

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The Philip Johnson Glass House by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger Pdf

The first authoritative book on the history of the Glass House property—Philip Johnson’s fifty-year project of iconic modernist design, encompassing the remarkable buildings, landscape, and follies. From its completion in 1949 to the present day, Philip Johnson’s Glass House has drawn cognoscenti and the curious from around the world to New Canaan, Connecticut, to experience what might be the most photographed modernist residence in America. The property—an architectural playground on forty-seven acres with eleven Johnsonian follies dating from 1949 to 1995—is an icon of twentieth-century architectural and landscape design. The book chronicles how Philip Johnson and David Whitney, the architect and the plantsman, lived on the property for decades and used the landscape as an ever-changing canvas for their designs—the result of a unique synthesis of influences and ideas from across history and geography. New research reveals Johnson’s and Whitney’s interaction with the landscape and the evolution of the site from a five-acre parcel to a world-renowned gentlemanly estate for modern times. The Philip Johnson Glass House—beautifully illustrated with vintage and commissioned photography—will be a must-have for connoisseurs of architecture, landscape design, photography, and social history.

Author : Franz Schulze
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226740584

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Philip Johnson by Franz Schulze Pdf

In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century. The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activists who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, he went on to create controversial and historical structures such as the Glass House, the Roofless Church, the AT & T Building, the Crystal Cathedral, and many more. Johnson's personal charms paired with his manipulative ploys—like his "borrowing" of designs—shine through in this biography. Drawing on Johnson's correspondence, personal photographs, and speeches, and on interviews with his friends and contemporaries, Schulze fills the biography with fascinating information on the architect's family, travels, friends and lovers, and his many buildings and spaces themselves. Franz Schulze is a professor of art at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Fantastic Images: Chicago Art since 1945, One Hundred Years of Chicago Architecture, and Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography.

Author : Philip Johnson,Richard Payne,Hilary Lewis,Stephen Fox
Publisher : Hachette Digital, Inc.
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0821227882

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The Architecture of Philip Johnson by Philip Johnson,Richard Payne,Hilary Lewis,Stephen Fox Pdf

A comprehensive portrait of one of the last century's most influencial architects takes readers on a visual tour of his most spectacular achievements. 12,000 first printing.

Author : Beatriz Colomina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015079262971

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Philip Johnson by Beatriz Colomina Pdf

An illustrated collection of essays analyzing the work and cultural politics of the influential twentieth-century American architect Philip Johnson.

Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781620403761

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Architecture's Odd Couple by Hugh Howard Pdf

In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history. Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless creativity, enormous charisma, and an outspokenness that made each man irresistible to the media. Often publicly at odds, they were the twentieth century's flint and steel; their repeated encounters consistently set off sparks. Yet as acclaimed historian Hugh Howard shows, their rivalry was also a fruitful artistic conversation, one that yielded new directions for both men. It was not despite but rather because of their contentious--and not always admiring--relationship that they were able so powerfully to influence history. In Architecture's Odd Couple, Howard deftly traces the historical threads connecting the two men and offers readers a distinct perspective on the era they so enlivened with their designs. Featuring many of the structures that defined modern space--from Fallingwater to the Guggenheim, from the Glass House to the Seagram Building--this book presents an arresting portrait of modern architecture's odd couple and how they shaped the American landscape by shaping each other.

Author : Ian Volner
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714876828

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Philip Johnson by Ian Volner Pdf

A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century With his elegant suits and trademark round black glasses, Philip Johnson - a witty, wealthy, and well-connected architect - was for many years the most powerful figure in the society and politics of his profession. This impressively illustrated book traces his seven decades of larger-than-life influence, innovation, and controversy in the realm of architecture and beyond. Hundreds of images and documents, many published here for the first time, trace the remarkable life and career of a true legend.

Author : Philip Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:1088767116

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Deconstructivist Architecture by Philip Johnson Pdf

Author : Allan Temko
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013570367

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Eero Saarinen by Allan Temko Pdf

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Author : Stover Jenkins,David Mohney,Philip Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110356032

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The Houses of Philip Johnson by Stover Jenkins,David Mohney,Philip Johnson Pdf

Until now, however, that house has not been looked at in the context of Johnson's many other house projects. This book, the first to comprehensively survey Johnson's residential work, not only brings to light a largely neglected side of Johnson's achievement, but freshly illuminates his entire career."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Christian Bjone,The Images Publishing Group
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864705249

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Philip Johnson and His Mischief by Christian Bjone,The Images Publishing Group Pdf

In the world of modern art, the idea of appropriation, or the conscious manipulation of the recognised world of another artist, has long been accepted as a legitimate strategy in criticism of the tradition of art authorship, challenging the context of viewing contemporary work and the manipulation of omnipresent media images. The world of art itself is fair game to be pillaged or mined in the production of new art, but there is almost no recognised equivalent aesthetic in architecture. Philip Johnson consistently dealt with the concept of appropriation and used it as a design strategy from the very beginning of his illustrious career. A singular taste-maker, Philip Johnson influenced art, architecture and design during the second half of the 20th century. Philip Johnson and His Mischief: Appropriation in Art and Architecture looks at the concept of appropriation and how Johnson’s style was influenced first by his mentor, Mies van der Rohe, and then by post-modern ideas and artists. This title serves to review Johnson’s body of work and show that, far from being a weakness, his use of appropriation was a major part of his innovative success.

Author : Philip Johnson,John Burgee
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033749097

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Philip Johnson/John Burgee by Philip Johnson,John Burgee Pdf

The past decade has witnessed the realization of Philip Johnson and John Burgee's most innovative buildings in their eighteen-year professional collaboration. No single architectural team has had a stronger impact on the shape of the American skyline. Their impressive output makes an updated volume on their work timely and welcome, both to the architectural community and to the interested public. The twenty-five projects featured in this volume include high-rise office buildings and urban complexes, colleges and cultural centers, commercial and religious monuments. A distinctive and highly varied repertory emerges: the Romanesque ensemble of the New Cleveland PlayHouse; the neoclassical AT&T building in NewYork City; a mansard-roofed skyscraper in San Francisco (adorned with classical statues); the Dutch-gabled Republic Bank Center in Houston; Boston's "village of skyscrapers," International Place at Fort Hill; and that major twentieth century space in Garden Grove, California- the steel and glass Crystal Cathedral. The volume also features buildings currently in production and under construction, such as the triple-tiered, oval-shaped office building on Fifty-third Street and Third Avenue in New York, a very creative manipulation of the New York City zoning laws and the new home of John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson.The illustrated main text is supplemented by a chronological index providing in capsule form a history of their major built projects -- from dust jacket.

Author : Philip Johnson,Hilary Lewis
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015047356798

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Philip Johnson by Philip Johnson,Hilary Lewis Pdf

The career of Philip Johnson, dean of American architecture and international spokesperson for an entire generation of modern and postmodern architects, spans over 50 years and countless projects. In a series of interviews, the architect selects and discusses 20 favorite buildings, providing a rare glimpse into the mind of a master architect at work. Photographs.

Author : Philip Johnson
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870701177

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Philip Johnson and the Museum of Modern Art by Philip Johnson Pdf

This volume focuses on the architect Philip Johnson's long association with The Museum of Modern Art, with essays examining his roles as patron, as curator, and as the institution's unofficial architect from the late 1940s to the early 1970s.

Author : Henry Russell Hitchcock,Philip Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393315185

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The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock,Philip Johnson Pdf

The most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely designed new edition.