• Media type: Book
  • Title: Philip Johnson : the constancy of change
  • Contains: Roaming through historyPhilip 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.
    Includes index
  • Contributor: Petit, Emmanuel [Other]; Colomina, Beatriz [Other]; Johnson, Philip [Other]
  • Published: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]: Yale Univ. Press, 2009
  • Extent: IX, 278 S.; zahlr. Ill; 27cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780300121810
  • RVK notation: ZH 4800 : Leben und Werk einzelner Architekten (CSN des Namens)
    LI 44620 : Johnson, Philip
  • Keywords: Johnson, Philip
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  • Footnote: Includes index

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