| Description |
ix, 278 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Roaming through history -- Philip Johnson: art and irony / Vincent Scully -- The autobiographical house: around a haunted hearth / Kurt W. Forster -- Philip Johnson: act one, scene one -- The museum of modern art? / Terence Riley with Joshua Sacks -- Johnson on TV / Beatriz Colomina -- Society, power, and politics -- The figurehead: on monumentality and Nihilism in Philip Johnson's life and work / Joan Ockman -- Liquidity: architecture and oil / Reinhold Martin -- Philip Johnson's empire: network power and the AT&T building / Kazys Varnelis -- Philip Johnson and the smile of Medusa / Charles Jencks -- The plot against architecture / Michael Sorkin -- Reckoning with modernism -- The delicacy of modern tastes / Detlef Mertins -- Playboy architecture then and now / Stanislaus von Moos -- Philip Johnson: breaking with modernism--the "whence & whither" of it / Phillis Lambert -- Reaction design / Mark Wigley -- Theory -- Philip Johnson: romanticism and disintegration / Peter Eisenman -- Philip Johnson and the rhetoric of the new: Panta Rhei versus the avant-garde / Ujjval Vyas -- Working out Johnson's role in history / Mark Jarzombek -- The new canaan estate: a gallery. |
| Subject |
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Architects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Petit, Emmanuel, 1973-
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Colomina, Beatriz.
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| ISBN |
9780300121810 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300121814 cloth alkaline paper |
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