Layout: Philip Johnson In Conversation With Rem Koolhaas And Hans Ulrich Obrist

by Philip Johnson (Contributor), Thomas Bayrle (Artist), Rem Koolhaas (Contributor)

Listen to Johnson, one of America's most potent architectural forces, talk with Obrist, curator and interviewer extraordinaire, and Koolhaas, architect of the global moment. But listen also to the background sounds provided by German artist Thomas Bayrle's application of Johnson's saying, “I take collective skeletons and insert the appropriate flesh,” to book design by way of The New York Times .

120 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 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.