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Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
Birthday	Sunday, July 08, 1906
Birthplace	Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Died	Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Nationality	American

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Johnson, Philip

Born July 8, 1906, in Cleveland. American architect. Student and colleague of Mies van der Rohe.

Developing the principles of his teacher, Johnson built a glass home in New Canaan, Conn., in the form of a cube in 1949. He later combined contemporary architectural principles and materials with free stylizations of traditional architectural forms (neo-classical, Gothic, ancient Roman, and Near and Far Eastern medieval styles). Among Johnson’s designs are the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1951, 1965), the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (Fort Worth, 1961), the dome of a nuclear reactor (Israel, 1960), and the State Theater at Lincoln Center (New York, 1964).

REFERENCE

Jacobus, J. Philip Johnson. London-New York, 1962.

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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century

Glassy star: Philip Johnson laid the groundwork for the modern celebrity architect, writes Edwin Heathcote

Per Mark Lamster's new The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, the answer is nothing short of astonishing, albeit only in the negative sense of the word.

Philip Johnson Was Very Nazi. So What?

Donning sneakers, 24 dancers performed the rapid, rhythmic contemporary movement of Benjamin Millepied's Counterpoint for Philip Johnson during American Ballet Theatre's fall season.

Past the Proscenium: In-theater site-specific works are trending among concert dance companies

United States-based Eli Lilly and Company has named Philip Johnson as its new senior vice president, finance and treasurer, effective 1 January 2018, it is reported today.

Eli Lilly names new senior vice president, finance and treasurer

"This new paradigm will, for the first time and in a single transaction, allow for the simultaneous investment in art and real estate with Philip Johnson being the first architect to have a structure formally recognized as sculpture and he, the architect, recognized as an artist."

Nino Vendome

After Philip Johnson built the Glass House in New Canaan, architect John Black Lee erected a few midcentury structures of his own in the same town.

Bottega Veneta's architectural homage

The other candidates contesting the Nuneaton seat were Chris Brookes (Green), Philip Johnson (Labour), Richard Brighton-Knight (Lib Dem) and Craig Carpenter (UKIP).

Marcus Jones tells of delight after winning seat for Tories; Election special

Designed by acclaimed architect Philip Johnson, One Atlantic Center is a 50-story, LEED Gold-certified office tower located in the city's central business district, and includes 1.1 million square feet of office space and a 2,110-space parking garage.

Starwood Capital Group joint venture buys Atlanta office tower

Team members included John Rosser (captain), Norman Kelly, Keith Andrew, Doug Ormston, Philip Johnson, Norman Allinson, Peter Hanson, McConnell and Ken Gilhooley.

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The town has its sights on a vacant modernist building in walking distance from the village center, a glass structure designed by acclaimed architect Philip Johnson as corporate offices for an oil exploration company that left in 2006.

Conn. town eyes museum honoring Sendak

The hosting institutions promise both fertile and challenging grounds for a medium married to architecture.: Hermann Billing's Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, with its Neoclassical decorative program illuminated by generous skylights, and Philip Johnson's Kunsthalle Bielefeld--a gem of International Style museum architecture--with its elegant red sandstone volume housing flexible, freestanding walls.

"For the time being"

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