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The Man in the Glass House - Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (Hardcover)
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The Man in the Glass House - Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (Hardcover)
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When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one
of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American
cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and
MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one
of America's leading architects with his famous Glass House in New
Caanan, CT, and his controversial AT&T Building in NYC, among
many others in nearly every city in the country--but his most
natural role was as a consummate power broker and shaper of public
opinion. Johnson introduced European modernism--the sleek,
glass-and-steel architecture that now dominates our cities--to
America, and mentored generations of architects, designers, and
artists to follow. He defined the era of "starchitecture" with its
flamboyant buildings and celebrity designers who esteemed
aesthetics and style above all other concerns. But Johnson was also
a man of deep paradoxes: he was a Nazi sympathizer, a designer of
synagogues, an enfant terrible into his old age, a populist, and a
snob. His clients ranged from the Rockefellers to televangelists to
Donald Trump. Award-winning architectural critic and biographer
Mark Lamster's THE MAN IN THE GLASS HOUSE lifts the veil on
Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell
the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A rollercoaster tale
of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes
the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful, and
tells the story of the built environment in modern America.
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