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Philip Johnson 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.
In 1949, after a number of years as the Museum
of Modern Art's first director of the Architecture
Department, Johnson designed a residence for himself
in New Canaan, Connecticut for his master degree
thesis, the now famous Glass House.
He literally coined the term "International
School of Architecture" for an exhibition
at MOMA.
Johnson organized Mies van der Rohe's first visit
to this country as well as Le Corbusier's. He
even commissioned Mies to design his New York
apartment. Later, he would collaborate with Mies
on what has been described as this continent's
finest high-rise building, the Seagram Building
in New York.
By the fifties, Johnson was revising his earlier
views, culminating with a building that proved
to be one of the most controversial of his career—the
AT&T headquarters in New York with its so-called
"Chippendale" top.
Joining forces with partner John Burgee from 1967
through 1987, their twenty year output has been
nothing short of phenomenal.
The list of projects fills a volume, but suffice
it to say, ranges from numerous high-rise projects
such as International Place in Boston; Tycon Towers
in Vienna, Virginia; Momentum Place in Dallas;
53rd at Third in New York; NCNB Center in Houston;
PPG in Pittsburgh; 101 California in San Francisco;
United Bank Center Tower in Denver; to the far
flung National Center for Performing Arts in Bombay,
India; Century Center in South Bend, Indiana;
a Water Garden in Fort Worth, Texas; a Civic Center
in Peoria, Illinois; the Crystal Cathedral in
California; and a Dade County Cultural Center
in Miami. There are many, many more.
In 1989, Johnson became semi-retired, and devoted
his time mainly to projects of his own, but still
is a consultant to John Burgee Architects. His
most recent design is for a new School of Fine
Arts for Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Johnson died January 2005. |
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AT&T Corporate Headquarters
New York, New York |
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Pennzoil
Place and NCNB Center
Houston, Texas |
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Transco Tower
Houston, Texas |
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Glass House
New Canaan, Connecticut |
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Bell Tower, Crystal Cathedral
Garden Grove Community Church
California
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American Telephone and Telegraph Building
Maddison Avenue/ East 56th Street,
New York |
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Water Garden
1976
17,000 cubic yards of concrete
19,000 gallons of water
Fort Worth, Texas |
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