Articles Tagged with ''Philip Johnson''

In 1958, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at the University of California, Berkeley, embarked on an ambitious endeavor to closely study 40 of the most creative architects living in the U.S. or working in the country at the time.

Of the 40 architects in the creativity experiment in 1958–59, Johnson was the most challenging to interview.

We may think we know all there is about the most famous display of architecture to be mounted in the the U.S., the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark show, Modern Architecture: International Exhibition, curated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932. But there’s always more to dig up about this ultra-influential event and the fertile period from which it emanated, as we find in Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson.

Getting a close-up look at Philip Johnson’s Glass House, which was opened to the public last summer, has not been so easy.

When Philip Johnson’s Glass House officially opens to the public this month, it will mark the start of a new era for the iconic property.