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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.
May 7, 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. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson: Seagram Building.
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...
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).
Philip Johnson was a pioneer of Modernism, a design movement that sought to break away from traditional architectural styles. Characterized by clean lines, open spaces, and a rejection of ornamentation, Modernist architecture embraced functionality and simplicity.
Jan 12, 2019 · Emerging bravely from the glassy sea of Madison Avenue skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan, the open pediment atop Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s 1984 AT&T Building (now the Sony Tower ...
Jul 8, 2017 · When he was awarded the first ever Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979, the jury described Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) as someone who...
