American architect, 1906 to 2005, the Museum of Modern Art's founding curator of architecture, who co-curated the museum's 1932 exhibition that gave the new European modernism its American name, the International Style. He later worked with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building, became the Pritzker Architecture Prize's first laureate in 1979, and turned in his own later work toward the historical ornament of postmodernism, most visibly in Manhattan's AT&T Building. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionNaming and championing the International Style as a curator in 1932, then, decades later, helping open American architecture to postmodernism. 2 Classification
AwardPritzker Architecture Prize 1 Connections
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Awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1978.
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Philip Johnson worked with Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building, designing its interiors including the Four Seasons restaurant.
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Johnson earned a bachelor of architecture degree at Harvard in 1943, studying under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.
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Philip Johnson was the Pritzker Architecture Prize's first laureate in 1979.
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Philip Johnson co-curated the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition with Henry-Russell Hitchcock, giving the new European architecture its American name.
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In Style
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Influenced By
Johnson met Mies in 1928, promoted his work at MoMA, and later co-designed the Seagram Building with him.
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Works Designed
Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, a landmark of Postmodern architecture.
Designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence.
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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.
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1. Pritzker Architecture Prize (Wikipedia)
Criteria and proceedingsQuote, Criteria and proceedings
(In 1988 Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the award and eventually won it.) The jury, consisting of five to nine "experts ... recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture", deliberates and early in the following year announce the winner. The prize chair is the 2016 Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena; earlier chairs were J. Carter Brown (1979-2002), the Lord Rothschild (2003-2004), the Lord Palumbo (2005-2015), Glenn Murcutt (2016-2018) and Stephen Breyer (2019-2020).
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In 1930, Johnson became the first director of the architecture department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- Early life
- Later life and death
- Career summary
- Associated With: Completion of the Seagram Building, Seagram Building
- Associated With: The International Style Named, 1932 International Exhibition
- Associated With: Pritzker Architecture Prize Established, Pritzker Prize, 1979
- In Style: Postmodern Architecture, intro: "postmodern 550 Madison Avenue"/"postmodern Williams Tower"
- Influenced By: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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