Philip

johnson
Born - July 8, 1906
Died - January 25, 2005
 biography
 Schooling of Philip Johnson is completed
from Hackley school Tarrytown.
 He entered in Harvard University
 End of the Harvard year 2 events
changed his life-
 Johnson met Alfred H Barr
 Johnson read an article by Henry Russell
Hitchcock about modern architecture.
 STYLE OF PHILIP JOHNSON
i. Postmodern Architecture
ii. International Style
AT AND T BUILDING, The Seagram
PHILIP JOHNSON
Building, New York
 INTERNATIONAL STYLE
Seagram Building,
1. Large Spans of glass
2. Flat roof
3. Visible steel frame
4. No applied ornament

Lake Shore Drive Apartments (1948-

51) Chicago (Mies van der Rohe)
 Postmodern style
 Postmodern architecture is derived from a previous
movement called Modern Functionalism, where in the
designs are centered on the usability.
 With the conceptualization of Postmodernism, architects
merged Art and functionality in one broad concept

LASALLA
COLLEGE OF
ARTS ,
SINGAPORE
The Glass House first project of
Johnson
 Philip Johnson’s Glass House, built atop a dramatic
hill on a rolling 47-acre estate in New Canaan,
Connecticut, is a piece of architecture famous the
world over not for what it includes, but for what it
leaves out. The dwelling’s transparency and ruthless
economy are meant to challenge nearly every
conventional definition of domesticity.

 The house is an example of early use of industrial

materials such as glass and steel in home design.
Johnson lived at the weekend retreat for 58 years, and
since 1960[4] with his longtime companion, David
Whitney, an art critic and curator who helped design
the landscaping and largely collected the art displayed
there
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN THE GLASS
HOUSE
INTERIORS OF THE GLASS HOUSE
The floor is also made of red brick laid out in a herringbone
pattern and is raised ten inches off of ground level. The only
other divisions in the house besides the bathroom are
discreetly done with low cabinets and bookshelves, making the
house a single open room. This provides ventilation from all
four sides flowing through the house as well as ample lighting.

BEDROOM
AREA
The art gallery is buried underground in order to not take away
attention from the house, making it windowless which is
uncommon for a gallery. Wright's other notable experiment on
the site included a sculpture gallery which is "an assymyetrical
white-brick shed with a glass roof...conceived as a series of
interlocking rooms that step down around an open, central
space."

ART
GALLERY
GLASS HOUSE SURROUNDED WITH NATURE
53rd at Third, OR LIPSTICK BUILDING
• The Lipstick Building is a 453-foot tall skyscraper located at
885 Third Avenue, between East 53rd Street and 54th Street,
across from the Citigroup Center in Manhattan, New York City,
United States. It was completed in 1986 and has 34 floors.
• Nicknamed the Lipstick Building for its shape, the tower
features a pedestrian plaza surrounded by a ring of two-story
granite columns that separate the Manhattan streetscape from
the building's glass-enclosed nine-meter-high lobby.
• Lipstick's "street-level experience" has been called both
creative and exciting with its red granite and stainless steel
collonnade.
• The building sets itself apart from its neighbors by the
elegance of its elliptical form, its striking Imperial Red granite
exterior trimmed with bands of brushed stainless steel and its
two-story granite colonnade and double height, glass-enclosed
lobby.
FLOOR PLAN OF
LIPSTICK BUILDING
 The building is 143 m high in four oval cylinders placed one on
the other, from highest to lowest, creating a building that is tilted
away from the crowded third avenue.
 The elliptical shape of the plant also makes no difference
between offices located around the perimeter of plants as defined
by the ellipse, to belong to the same family as the circle has no
corners, and therefore there are no corners.
 According to the architect of the colonnade elliptical
perimeter surrounding the building is reminiscent of the Baroque
era was that this was very fashionable. While this certainly is not
one of the first observations of a casual visitor.
 Its elliptical with the fact that the floor is offset by gaining
height and red print that covers the granite that have made a
good start from what New Yorkers nicknamed "Lipstick Building"
or "Building lipstick. " Something that was originally n minds of
architects.
 On the façade of the building of 36 levels, alternating red granite
with glass and aluminum bright bands of horizontal windows.
CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL
The Crystal Cathedral was designed as a religious theater of sorts,
acting as both television studio and stage to a congregation of
3,000. It was commissioned by renowned televangelist Robert
Schuller and completed in 1980 near Los Angeles,
California. Philip Johnson and John Burgee devised the glass
enclosure in response to Schuller’s request that the church be
open to the "sky and the surrounding world."
The facade is composed of more than 10,000 glass panels affixed
to a framework of steel trusses. The panes are single-glazed and
held in place by structural silicone, reducing the visual prominence
of the joints. Johnson and Burgee developed the angular, star-
shaped plan to enliven the monolithic, monochromatic volume.
The steel tower was also designed by Johnson and completed in
1990. It is visible across the 34-acre campus and serves as a
vertical counterpart to the Cathedral.
TOWER INTERIOR
The single, gigantic space measures 400 feet by 200 feet in length
and width. The design is a modification of the typical Latin cross
plan, with a shortened nave and widened transept, to bring each
seat closer to the chancel. In a nod to Los Angeles car culture, the
parking lot was designed for a drive-in congregation to listen to
the sermon via car stereo. 90-foot-high doors beside the chancel
open onto the parking lot, providing ventilation and a visual
connection between attendees.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
CROSS SECTION
 AWARDS AND REWARDS
The first Pritzker Prize was awarded to the US
American architect Philip Cortelyou Johnson (born
July 8, 1906 - January 25, 2005) in 1979 at Dumbarton
Oaksin Washington D.C., when he was 73 years old.
By the time he received the award he had already
designed and constructed important architectural
works like "The Glass House" in California in 1949,
and was well known for his collaboration in the
Seagram Building with Mies van der Rohe in New
York in 1956.
1979 - Pritzker Architecture
Prize
1978 - AIA Gold Medal
1975 - Twenty-five Year
Award - Glass House
“Once I discovered
architecture as a need of
my nature, then that
enthusiasm knew no
bounds...art is the only
thing I've been alive for.
There's no such thing as
leisure time. If your work
is architecture, you work
all the time. You wake up
in the middle of the
night. 'I've got a
wonderful idea!'
BY NILIMA DONGRE
BARCH 4TH SEM