The Houses of Philip Johnson

by David Mohney, Philip Johnson, Stover Jenkins, et al.

For almost three-quarters of a century, as a critic and curator beginning in 1930s, and as a practicing architect since the 1940s, Philip Johnson has been at the center of modern architecture's development. His celebrated Glass House, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut -- a crystallization of Johnson's commitment to the high modernism of his mentor Mies van der Rohe -- is perhaps the single most famous house of the twentieth century. Until now,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789201143
• ISBN13: 9780789201140
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.3" x 11.2"