Main entry:

Cassidy-Geiger, Maureen, author.

Title & Author:

The Philip Johnson Glass House : an architect in the garden / Maureen Cassidy-Geiger ; principal photography by Peter Aaron.

Publication:

New York : Skira Rizzoli Publications Inc., 2016.
©2016

Description:

220 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Foreword by Charles A. Birnbaum Expanding the View -- Map of Land Acquisitions -- Introduction Icon, Park and Partnership -- Chapter 1: 1946-1960 the Glass House before David Whitney -- Chapter 2: 1960-1979 The Flowering of the Glass House -- Chapter 3: 1979-1995 Living in the Present, Planning for the Future -- Chapter 4: 1995-2005 Editing Nature and the Glass House Gift to the National Trust -- Catalogue of Site Features Buildings, Follies, Sculptures, and National Landmarks -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Summary:

"The first authoritative book on the history of the Glass House property--Philip Johnson's fifty-year project of iconic modernist design, encompassing the remarkable buildings, landscape, and follies. From its completion in 1949 to the present day, Philip Johnson's Glass House has drawn cognoscenti and the curious from around the world to New Canaan, Connecticut, to experience what might be the most photographed modernist residence in America. The property--an architectural playground on forty-seven acres with eleven Johnsonian follies dating from 1949 to 1995--is an icon of twentieth-century architectural and landscape design. The book chronicles how Philip Johnson and David Whitney, the architect and the plantsman, lived on the property for decades and used the landscape as an ever-changing canvas for their designs--the result of a unique synthesis of influences and ideas from across history and geography. New research reveals Johnson's and Whitney's interaction with the landscape and the evolution of the site from a five-acre parcel to a world-renowned gentlemanly estate for modern times. The Philip Johnson Glass House--beautifully illustrated with vintage and commissioned photography--will be a must-have for connoisseurs of architecture, landscape design, photography, and social history."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780847848362 (hardback)
0847848361 (hardback)

Subject:

Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 Criticism and interpretation.
Johnson, Philip, Criticism and interpretation.
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005.
Johnson, Philip 1906-2005
Glass House (New Canaan, Conn.)
Architect-designed houses Connecticut New Canaan.
International style (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.
Maisons conçues par des architectes Connecticut New Canaan.
Style international (Architecture) Connecticut New Canaan.
Architect-designed houses Connecticut.
International style (Architecture) Connecticut.
Architect-designed houses.
International style (Architecture)
Connecticut New Canaan.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bildband.

Added entries:

Aaron, Peter, photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292304
Call No.: BIB 236521
Status: Available