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Philip Johnson : the Glass House
Title:
Philip Johnson : the Glass House
Author:
Whitney, David.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pantheon Books, [1993]

©1993
Physical Description:
xxxii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction : throwing stones--the incidental effects of a glass house / Jeffrey Kipnis -- Architecture opaque and transparent / Arthur Drexler -- House at New Canaan, Connecticut / Philip Johnson -- "Johnson" / Philip Johnson -- Full scale false scale / Philip Johnson -- Whence and whither : the processional element in architecture / Philip Johnson -- What makes me tick / Philip Johnson -- The Duke of Xanadu at home / Robert Hughes -- From Philip Johnson's eminent, elegant, practical world / Paul Goldberger -- From forms under light / Calvin Tomkins -- The evolution of Philip Johnson's glass house, 1947-1948 / Robert A. M. Stern -- From the introduction to Philip Johnson Writings / Peter Eisenman -- Philip Johnson : history, genealogy, historicism / Craig Owens -- The glass house revisited / Kenneth Frampton -- The house of dreams and memories : Philip Johnson at New Canaan / Francesco Dal Co -- Architect's retreat / Walter Wagner -- Improving his view / Rosamond Bernier -- Philip Johnson : the glass house revisited / Vincent Scully -- Johnson and his glass house : reflections / Joseph Giovannini -- Semper and two American glass houses / Robert Dell Vuyosevich.
ISBN:
9780679423737
Format :
Book