Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press : in association with the Yale University School of Architecture, ©2009.

Description:

ix, 278 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

An illustrated collection of essays analyzing the work and cultural politics of the influential twentieth-century American architect Philip Johnson.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780300121810 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300121814 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 Criticism and interpretation.
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005
Johnson, Philip 1906-2005
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 analys och tolkning.
Johnson, Philip (Architekt)
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architects United States.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectes États-Unis.
Architects
Architecture
Arkitektur historia Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
Arkitekter Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
United States

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Quotations (texts)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Petit, Emmanuel, 1973- editor.
Stern, Robert A. M., writer of foreword.
Colomina, Beatriz.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261112
Call No.: NA44.J68.9 P4 2009
Status: Available