The Architecture of Philip Johnson

This review is not about Philip Johnson it's for the book itself. like other reviews. it's in large formate print and bind nicely. however i found the content not very informative. some project only have 1 image and there's no even a small thumbnail of floor plan or some kind of drawing. i would say back then all drawing by hands are very pretty and i believe that's the information people pay money for this book. pretty photos are available online...advice: this book is not for architect who wants research Phillip Johnson's design thought/method.

I bought this book for my artist student son as he loves Phillip Johnson's work. He just loved it and couldn't put it down on Christmas Day. One word of caution--it is big and HEAVY!! When the box came from Amazon, I didn't think I could get it in the house! But worth every penny and I would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in truly creative architecture.

Philip Johnson, the most famous, influential and important architect of Post-War America gets here what he deserves: a monumental opus, gorgeously designed and filled with magnificent color photographs that surveys each and every one of the extant buildings designed by the "dean" of American architecture. From the Glass House (1949) to Trump Place (2001), this book works as a virtual catalogue raisonne of the work of Philip Johnson, reassessing a career that saw powerful masterpieces and dull, uninspired services to real estate tycoons but never went unnoticed.The texts are simple and short, the emphasis being on the newly-commissioned photographs. Although an act of love sanctioned by Johnson himself (who chose the ruined World Fair Building for the cover), the book is not adulatory- Johnson's critics' sharp words on certain polemic buildings are included here.As the publisher states in the flapcover, "This is *the* book on Philip Johnson's architecture".

Gorgeous photography! High quality images! Very insightful! Excellent book!!!

Beautiful book for reading or for displaying in your home. Philip Johnson was the master and he is missed. The book could really use a table of contents or some kind of list for easy tabbing, but that's okay.

On the other hand, Philip Johnson was an active fascist sympathizer and active propagandist for the Nazi government, who had tried to implement fascism in USA for at least 8 years between 1932 and 1940. Details of this past are described in "WE CANNOT NOT KNOW HISTORY:" PHILIP JOHNSON'S POLITICS AND CYNICAL SURVIVAL by KAZYS VARNELIS in Journal of Architectural Education, November 1994 published also on the Internet, and also discussed at [...]