Philip Johnson Architect, Buildings, Studio, American Practice, Projects, Photo, Design

Philip Johnson, USA : Architecture

Postmodern Architecture : United States of America


Philip Johnson Architect - News re The Glass House

Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA - news
Philip Johnson Glass House
photograph courtesy The National Trust for Historic Preservation
Philip Johnson Glass House - 27 Aug 2012
New program reintroduces fresh flowers to the Glass House; floral displays to be inspired by and reflect design sensibility of Philip Johnson and David Whitney. It coincides with the Glass House tour season, May to Nov 2012. Generously supported by Architectural Digest magazine.

Philip Johnson - Key Projects

Key Philip Johnson Buildings - all in USA (chronological):

Mathematics Tower, Columbus, Ohio 1992
PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1984
AT&T Building, New York 1984
John F Kennedy Memorial, Dallas, Texas 1970
New York State Pavilion, New York 1964
Seagram Building, New York 1958
Rockefeller Guest House, New York 1950
Johnson House, New Canaan, Connecticut 1949

Seagram Building

Philip Johnson Architect - New York Buildings

Designs, alphabetical:

1001 Fifth Avenue Façade, 1001 Fifth Avenue
1978-80
Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee
Postmodern New York architecture

AT&T Building, Madison Avenue
1980-83
Philip Johnson, Architect with John Burgee
AT&T Building New York
scanned image from 1989 by isabelle lomholt
AT&T Building : very famous Postmodern building with its so-called 'Chippendale Chair' top. Its marriage of a regular (efficient = profitable) skyscraper with a iconic piece of architecture 'plonked' on top made it highly unpopular amongst many architects but regarded by many others as invigorating, moving away from the solemnity of typical Modern movement buildings - which had largely become stripped-down variants to money-making shells by the early Eighties. Renamed the Sony Building.

Lipstick Building, New York
1986

New York State Pavilion : World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens
1964
Philip Johnson & Richard Foster Architects
1964-65 World's Fair
1982 : Building interior renovation Johnson/Burgee Architects

New York State Theater
-
Also by Philip Johnson are the Lincoln Center plaza + fountain, 1965

Penzoil Place, Houston, Texas, USA
-

Rockefeller Guest House, 242 East 52nd Street
1949-50
Philip Johnson, Architect with Landis Gore and Frederick C. Genz, Architects

Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York
1954-58
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson

More projects online soon

Another building by architect Mies van der Rohe is the Barcelona Pavilion
Philip Johnson became an associate for architect Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building in 1955: he worked on interiors such as the Four Seasons Restaurant. Philip Johnson had met Mies in 1928



 

Philip Johnson - Practice Information

The Architect

Philip Johnson : Pritzker PrizeWinner 1979

Philip Cortelyou Johnson
1906-2005
Philip was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

MoMA Department of Architecture and Design founder
1930

Famous for promoting Postmodernist style

Awards

American Institute of Architects Gold Medal
1978
First Pritzker Architecture Prize
1979

Education

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Key Exhibition

'The International Style: Architecture Since 1922', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1932
with Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Henry-Russell Hitchcock

Philip Johnson in his Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA:
Philip Johnson Glass House
photograph : Todd Eberle

Philip Johnson buildings - New York Architecture context

Habana Riviera Hotel, Cuba
1957
Polevitzky and Philip Johnson

Modern Architects

Philip Johnson : Mies van der Rohe associate

New York Architects



Iconic Buildings

Modern Houses
Farnsworth House
image © gm+ad architects

Buildings / photos for the Philip Johnson Architecture page welcome: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Philip Johnson Architect - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

[Back to Top]