{"product_id":"the-houses-of-philip-johnson","title":"The Houses of Philip Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor almost three-quarters of a century  as a critic and curator beginning in 1930s  and as a practicing architect since the 1940s  Philip Johnson has been at the center of modern architectures development. His celebrated Glass House  built in 1949 in New Canaan  Connecticut  a crystallization of Johnsons commitment to the high modernism of his mentor Mies van der Rohe  is perhaps the single most famous house of the twentieth century. Until now  however  that house has not been looked at in the context of Johnsons many other house projects. This book  the first to comprehensively survey Johnsons residential work  not only brings to light a largely neglected side of Johnsons achievement  but freshly illuminates his entire career. By examining all of Johnsons houses  authors Stover Jenkins and David Mohney  both architects  help us understand the Glass House as an expression of Johnsons developing thought. Focusing first on Johnsons student work at Harvard and his early commissions  they show how the Glass House reflects Johnsons concentrated study not only of pioneering modern architects including Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier  but of masters of previous centuries such as Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. They detail the three-year design process of the Glass House  and then show how Johnson moved beyond the influence of Mies to create a remarkably diverse body of work  one that is nevertheless unified by characteristic themes  like Johnsons inventive development of the Miesian court-house scheme  and his articulation of space by the use of connected pavilions. Johnsons clients have always included powerful patrons of art and architecture. Presented in this book are his jewel-like townhouse for Blanchette Rockefeller and the Houston home of John and Dominique de Menil  with its enclosed court; projects for collector Joseph Hirshhorn; and the spectacular vacation house at Cap Bnat for the Biossonnas family. Recent projects include a sprawling desert compound in Israel and a village-like vacation residence in the Caribbean. But from the beginning  when Johnson submitted a house he built for himself in Cambridge  Massachusetts  as his graduate thesis  he has been his own most effective client. The book concludes with a look at the ten built and seven unbuilt projects he has designed over the years for the New Canaan estate. As an afterword  the book includes a penetrating essay by architectural historian Neil Levine  who argues that we must now recognize Johnsons publication of the Glass House  in a 1950 article  as a turning point in the recognition of modernism as a historical movement. Supporting a critical account of approximately thirty built and forty unbuilt projects  the book includes numerous plans and drawings  many never before published  and historical photographs. New color photographs by Steven Brooke capture the ways Johnson has used light  space  and landscape to create some of modernisms most appealing houses. Essential reading for architects and students  this book is also a vital resource for the study of one of modern architectures most influential figures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965412667445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0789201143","price":165.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780789201140.jpg?v=1770495872","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-houses-of-philip-johnson","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}