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7 unusual facts about Philip Johnson


Jacobus Oud

As of 1932, he was considered one of the four greatest modern architects (along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier), and was prominently featured in Philip Johnson's International Style exhibition.

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

It was designed by Philip Johnson in 1968, and paid for by the businessman and art patron Rudolf August Oetker.

It was built in 1968 by the American architect Philip Johnson in the International Style that he had founded, and is his only museum building in Europe.

Movado

Movado commissioned "Time Sculpture" by architect Philip Johnson located outside Lincoln Center in New York City.

Philip Johnson-Laird

He was educated at Culford School and University College London where he won the Rosa Morison Medal in 1964 and a James Sully Scholarship between 1964–66.

PPG Industries

It is headquartered in PPG Place, a popular office and retail complex in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is known for its glass facade designed by Philip Johnson.

Rippowam River

Architect Philip Johnson built his Glass House on the eastern slope of the Rippowam River valley in New Canaan in the late 1940s to take advantage of the view of the valley formed by the river.


Glass House

The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence, and "universally viewed as having been derived from" the Farnsworth House design, according to Alice T. Friedman.

New York City Ballet

Philip Johnson and John Burgee's stage setting of translucent tubing was designed by to be hung and lit in different architectural configurations throughout the entire festival.


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