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Iconic American architect Philip Johnson has died at 98. Many of Johnson's bulidings are familiar sights to New Yorkers, including the AT&T-now-Sony building at 550 Madison Avenue (known as the Chippendale building), the State Theater at Lincoln Center, and the sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art, and he worked with Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building. Other famous designs include the Glass House in Connecticut and the Garden Grove Church in L.A.
Here's the NY Times obituary. Johnson was the subject of an American Masters profile. Here is Johnson's firm site, Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie Architects, and you can buy The Architecture of Philip Johnson online. Curbed has some more links.
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I have a soft spot in my heart for Philip Johnson, because the Chippendale Building was my first conscious foray into NYC architecture. Sure, I went to the World Trade Center, but the WTC never seemed like a building where people worked...it was more a tourist attraction in my childish mind. But then my mom worked at 550 Madison Avenue, and she would refer to it as the Chippendale Building, as if I should know that it was important at age 9 or 10. Then I started to realize what buildings could be.
He was 98, not 89.
The lipstick building will always be one of may favorites. It has a fun quality that makes it inviting when compared to the other granite and glass monolithes that occupy the city.
I actually snuck onto the New Canaan property and saw the glass house and the sleeping silo, etc... before being eyeballed by the groundskeeper... he was a genius.
"Bulidings" being, of course, from his later post-Modernist period...
He was probably the most successful gay Nazi in America!
It's a small crowd...