Philip Johnson [ Texto impreso] : life and work / by Franz Schulze.

Contiene numerosas fotografías de obras arquitectónicas y de Philip Johnson.

PART ONE: ORIGINS AND DIRECTIONS, 1652-1934. From Nieuw Amsterdam to Overlook Road ; Homer and Louise ; The irreplaceable heir ; Harvard: collision of mind and heart ; Alfred Barr ; The pilgrimage roads ; MoMA, Russel, and the new style ; Mies ; The american invasion ; The 1932 show: the revolution goes uptown ; The rise and fall of art -- PART TWO: THE INGLORIOUS DETOUR, 1934-1946. Zarathustra and the kingfish ; New London and the radio priest ; Tomorrow the world ; Back to Harvard ; The penitential private -- PART THREE: REBIRTH AND RENEWAL, 1946-1953. Barr again, MoMA again, Mies again ; Domesticity ; Opus in vitro ; The early fifties: work, people, worldview ; PART FOUR: BREAK WITH MODERNISM, 1953-1967. "It is all Socrates's fault" ; Yet again Mies: easy to shoot at, hard to bring down ; Historophilia and monumentality ; Wandering minstrel ; The sixties: Laurels and ass's ears ; New Canaan ; Urbanism and its discontents ; Outpaced and restored by the young -- PART FIVE: SUPERSTARDOM, 1967-. Burgee of Chicago ; Raised up at AT&T, brought low at MoMA ; The PoMo revel ; Peter ; Philip and David at home ; Decon ; Burgee: discarded by the discarded ; The summing up: Berlin, 1993 ; Work in progress ;

"A living history of modern and postmodern architecture and architectual thought emerges as Schulze discusses Johnson's curatorial role at MoMA for the pathbreaking design exhibits of the 1930s, his often controversial buildings-including the Glass House, the AT&T Building, Pennzoil Place, the Crystal Cathedral, PPG Corporate Headquarters, and many others-and his role as critic and teacher" (solapa anterior)