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Philip Johnson

1,906–2,005 · United States of America · 2 awards · added by @Alaaeldin ★ Top contributor
  • International Style
  • Postmodernism
  • ★ AIA Gold Medal
  • ★ Pritzker Architecture Prize

Career

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Co-author of *The International Style* (1932) and founding head of MoMA's architecture department before turning architect himself with the Glass House (1949). Crossed every twentieth-century stylistic line — late-Mies modernist, the AT&T Building's broken-pediment postmodernism (1984), the Lipstick Building, the late deconstructivist works.

Legacy

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The first Pritzker laureate (1979). His curatorial influence at MoMA — picking Mies, then later Gehry and Eisenman — arguably exceeded his own designs.

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