Gothamist: Architect Philip Johnson Dies

Tim N.

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:37:37 -0500

It's a small crowd...

nola

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:19:13 -0500

He was probably the most successful gay Nazi in America!

Jonathan Vos Post

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:10:07 -0500

"Bulidings" being, of course, from his later post-Modernist period...

Kristen

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:36:43 -0500

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.

MT

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:51:09 -0500

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.

k

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:03:32 -0500

He was 98, not 89.

Jen

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:23:12 -0500

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.