PHILIP JOHNSON: PROFILE, PHOTOS, AND WORKS

Profile 

Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906, America, 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.

Philip C. Johnson was an architect and theorist who designed his own home, the Glass House, New Canaan, CT, on principles of space unification derived from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with whom he designed the Seagram Building skyscraper, New York City (1945). Further works include the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, TX (1961) and the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center (1964). He was the inaugural winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979. Architect and theorist, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. A graduate of Harvard, he also studied under Marcel Breuer, and became a proponent of the International Style.

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His Works

One Detroit Center (1993) from Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.

PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2007.

The postmodern AT&T Building (1984), now the Sony Building

Hines College of Architecture at theUniversity of Houston, Houston, Texas, in 2007.

Chapel of St. Basil (1992) on the Academic Mall at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.

The Johnson Building at Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, in 2008.

Kunsthalle Bielefeld (1968)

A model of the Glass House (1949) on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

Atrium of the New York State Theater (1964) at Lincoln Center

The Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California in 2007.

Banaven Center (Black Cube) in Caracas, Venezuela (1975).

Gate of Europe (Puerta de Europa) in Madrid (1989)