Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art; and the Pre-Columbian Pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. In his obituary, The New York Times wrote in January 2005 that his works "were widely considered among the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century." In 1930, Johnson became the first director of the architecture department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Johnson has received more than 1,325,244 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Philip Johnson is the 61st most popular architect (down from 56th in 2019), the 702nd most popular biography from United States (down from 624th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Architect.

Philip Johnson is most famous for his work on the Glass House, which he designed in 1949 and is now a National Historic Landmark.