Whatever Philip Johnson's legacy turns out to be, it will not rest on his buildings.
WSJ: Philip Johnson: Short of Attention Span, Long on Aesthetics
Philip Johnson's legendary and persuasive charm was a prime tool in his arsenal of power.
WSJ: Philip Johnson: Short of Attention Span, Long on Aesthetics
MicroStrategy, run out of a striking 17-story Philip Johnson building in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.
Philip Johnson used to say that what he really wanted to be was "l'architecte du roi, " the king's architect.
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Even the 94-year-old architecture legend Philip Johnson has one on the drawing board.
The next morning he went to the Sheldon Museum of Art, a little Philip Johnson building completed two years before.
Leight likes the way comedienne Tina Fey looks in her glasses, ditto Katy Perry, Lisa Loeb, Damien Hirst and Philip Johnson.
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Hines broke in to New York in 1986, when it built the Philip Johnson-designed "Lipstick Building" at 53rd Street and Third Avenue.
Hines broke in to New York in 1986, when it built the "Lipstick Building, " designed by Philip Johnson, at 53rd Street and Third Avenue.
As Philip Johnson designed his glass home, Mies van der Rohe was contemporaneously at work on his glass-walled Farnsworth House, situated outside Chicago.
It's been a decade since Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum--"the greatest building of our time, " according to the late Philip Johnson--embedded Bilbao on the cultural globe.
In his most famous structure, the 1958 Seagram building (for which the ever-industrious Philip Johnson did the interior spaces), Mies' lyricism is given epic form.
Four other Harvard-trained architects, including Philip Johnson, followed him.
Lambert, the architect daughter of the Seagram Co. founder Samuel Bronfman, was responsible, with Philip Johnson, for Mies's only commission in New York, the 1958 Seagram Building on Park Avenue, still the city's finest modernist building.
His mentor and idol for many years, the modern movement's austere and elegant master, Mies van der Rohe, once famously said that you can't invent a new architecture every Monday morning, but that would have suited Philip Johnson's restless mind perfectly.
WSJ: Philip Johnson: Short of Attention Span, Long on Aesthetics
But whatever the contradictions of a life designed to provoke and dazzle, Philip Johnson ceaselessly promoted architecture as the art that has shaped the great monuments and cities of history, and he sincerely believed that we owe the future a legacy of equal value.
WSJ: Philip Johnson: Short of Attention Span, Long on Aesthetics
Enthralled by the European sophistication of Gropius (who had once been married to Alma Mahler), MoMA's young architecture curator Philip Johnson in 1932 set about canonizing him and Mies, as well as representatives of other European countries such as the French architect Le Corbusier.
That explains this satirical comment letter just published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, sent by Philip McBride Johnson, a former chair of the CFTC.
The tabloid Bild urges Britons not to turn their backs on the EU: "Dear Brits, please stay - after all, you're so beautifully crazy, " it pleads (using the English for "crazy") before launching into a paean to an eclectic list of "crazy" Britons that includes Prince Philip, Sacha Baron Cohen, Boris Johnson and the Loch Ness Monster.
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