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Also Known As Philip Cortelyou Johnson
Born July 8, 1906 • Cleveland • Ohio
Died January 25, 2005 (aged 98) • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Pritzker Prize (1979)
Movement / Style International Style • postmodernism

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Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson: Seagram Building
Philip Johnson: Glass House
Philip Johnson: Glass House
Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Seagram Building in New York City
Behold Philip Johnson discussing his Glass House (1949)
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
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Richard Meier: Atheneum
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Daniel H. Burnham.
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Richard Morris Hunt
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Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
William Le Baron Jenney
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Wallace Harrison, 1966
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Walter Gropius
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Marcel Breuer
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Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
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I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
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Affonso Reidy
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Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
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Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
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Mexican architect and muralist
Jacques Herzog
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Pierre de Meuron
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Walter Netsch
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Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
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