Philip Johnson / Alan Ritchie Architects

by Philip Johnson

Introduction by Paul Goldberger. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the title stamped in blind on the front cover and stamped in white on the spine.

191 pages, Hardcover

First published April 28, 2003

About the author

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect.
In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1978 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize. He was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Johnson was gay, and has been called "the best-known openly gay architect in America." In 1961 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1963.

Reviews

[Sharon Barrow Wilfong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful coffee table book with color photos and notes by the architect himself. Great addition to the library of all Philip Johnson fans.