Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson was an influential American architect who shaped modern building design throughout the 20th century, from the 1930s until his death in 2005. His work matters because he helped introduce and develop modernist architecture in the United States and remained a major figure in the field for over seven decades, influencing how architects designed homes, offices, and public buildings.
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- 1900
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- 1984
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Philip Johnson was a renowned American architect whose works exemplify modern and postmodern architecture of the second half of the 20th century.
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- Sketches of Frank Gehry — Self2006
- My Architect: A Son's Journey — Self2003
- Bauhaus: The Face of the Twentieth Century — self1994
- Mies — Self1986
- The Responsive Eye — Self1965
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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis; the Sculpture Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art; the postmodern Williams Tower in Houston, Texas; and the Pre-Columbian Pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. His January 2005 obituary in The New York Times described his works as being "widely considered among the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century".
In 1930, Johnson became the first director of the architecture department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. There he arranged for visits by Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier and negotiated the first American commission for Mies van der Rohe, after he fled Nazi Germany. In 1932, he organized with Henry-Russell Hitchcock the first exhibition dedicated to modern architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, which gave name to the subsequent movement known as International Style. In 1934, Johnson resigned his position at the museum.
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