Philip Johnson: A Complicated, Reprehensible History

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This interview was originally published on Common Edge as "Mark Lamster on His New Biography of Philip Johnson."

Philip Johnson lived a long and extraordinarily eventful life. He was an architect, a museum curator, a tastemaker, a kingmaker, a schemer, an exceptionally vivid cultural presence. Mark Lamster, architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and Harvard Loeb Fellowship recipient, has now written a thoroughly engaging biography of him entitled, Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century: The Man in the Glass House. I talked to Lamster two weeks ago about the book and the bundle of contradictions that was Philip Johnson.

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Cite: Martin Pedersen. "Philip Johnson: A Complicated, Reprehensible History" 08 Nov 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/905102/philip-johnsons-complicated-history> ISSN 0719-8884

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