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Philip Johnson : the constancy of change / edited by Emmanuel Petit ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern ; essays by Beatriz Colomina ... [et al.].

Title
  1. Philip Johnson : the constancy of change / edited by Emmanuel Petit ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern ; essays by Beatriz Colomina ... [et al.].
Published by
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press : In association with the Yale University School of Architecture, c2009.
Format
  1. Book/text

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Additional authors
  1. Petit, Emmanuel, 1973-
  2. Colomina, Beatriz
Description
  1. ix, 278 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm.
Summary
  1. An illustrated collection of essays analyzing the work and cultural politics of the influential twentieth-century American architect Philip Johnson.
Subject
  1. Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
  2. Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 -- Criticism and interpretation.
  3. Architects -- United States.
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History
Contents
  1. Roaming through history -- Philip Johnson: art and irony / Vincent Scully -- The autobiographical house: around a haunted hearth / Kurt W. Forster -- Philip Johnson: act one, scene one -- The museum of modern art? / Terence Riley with Joshua Sacks -- Johnson on TV / Beatriz Colomina -- Society, power, and politics -- The figurehead: on monumentality and Nihilism in Philip Johnson's life and work / Joan Ockman -- Liquidity: architecture and oil / Reinhold Martin -- Philip Johnson's empire: network power and the AT&T building / Kazys Varnelis -- Philip Johnson and the smile of Medusa / Charles Jencks -- The plot against architecture / Michael Sorkin -- Reckoning with modernism -- The delicacy of modern tastes / Detlef Mertins -- Playboy architecture then and now / Stanislaus von Moos -- Philip Johnson: breaking with modernism--the "whence & whither" of it / Phillis Lambert -- Reaction design / Mark Wigley -- Theory -- Philip Johnson: romanticism and disintegration / Peter Eisenman -- Philip Johnson and the rhetoric of the new: Panta Rhei versus the avant-garde / Ujjval Vyas -- Working out Johnson's role in history / Mark Jarzombek -- The new canaan estate: a gallery.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Language
  1. English
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain