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Titre:
Philip Johnson / Alan Ritchie architects

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This volume contains work, both built and unbuilt, both large-scale and small, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects. Alan Ritchie has worked with Johnson since 1969; the firm was established in 1994. The projects shown may be divided into two groups. Johnson’s interest in the past decade in sculptural form - or the way in which sculptural form translates into architectural presence - has led to designs that involve both new kinds of shapes and new ways of using classic architectural form to make entirely new works of architecture. Such sculptural works, for the most part small in scale, include Da Monsta, the new visitors pavilion at Johnson’s famed Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and a spectacular folly consisting of four pyramids made of chain-link fencing at an estate in New York State. Simultaneously, the firm has continued its ongoing work with larger projects, such as a 27-story apartment tower for Tribeca, in lower Manhattan; the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas; an addition to the Amon Carter Museum, originally designed by Johnson in 1961, in Forth Worth, Texas; and a proposal for the architecture school at Texas A University in College Station. Also included are a pair of proposals for La Défense in Paris; three large houses; a new china design for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York; and a new public clock, sponsored by Movado, for Lincoln Center. Introduction by Paul Goldberger.

Titre:
Philip Johnson: The glass house

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Philip Johnson designed some of America's greatest modern architectural landmarks--most notably the Glass House. This new publication, with a foreword by Paul Goldberger and essay by Philip Johnson, presents an exclusive tour of the Glass House, its grounds, treasures, and patrons, and honors the legacy of one of modern architecture's most famous creations.

Titre:
Le style international

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C’est quelque temps après la célèbre exposition du Museum of Modern Art de New York « Modern Architecture : International Exhibition », qu’a paru en 1932 le livre de Henry-Russell Hitchcock et Philip Johnson "The International Style : Architecture since 1922" qui en constitue le prolongement durable. Il s’agissait de faire connaître au public américain les développements récents de l’avant-garde notamment européenne ; les auteurs avaient pu observer lors de voyages les nouvelles recherches de Alvar Aalto, André Lurçat, E.G.?Asplund, Erich Mendelsohn, Erik Bryggman, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P.?Oud, Josef Albers, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Otto Eisler ou Walter Gropius qui le premier avait déjà réuni en 1925 les exemples récents les plus significatifs de l’architecture européenne et nord-américaine. Le projet du livre, s’attachant à illustrer et à défendre l’architecture moderne d’avant-garde, participait d’un mouvement général qui tendait à une codification architecturale.