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Philip Johnson

1906 - 2005

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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis; the Sculpture Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art; and the Pre-Columbian Pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. His January 2005 obituary in The New York Times described his works as being "widely considered among the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century". In 1930, Johnson became the first director of the architecture department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Johnson is the 82nd most popular architect (up from 112th in 2019), the 1,143rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,308th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Architect.

Philip Johnson is most famous for his work on the Glass House, which he designed in 1949 and is now a National Historic Landmark.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Philip Johnson ranks 82 out of 518. Before him are Albert Speer, Peter Parler, Sebastiano Serlio, Claude Perrault, Vincenzo Scamozzi, and Erich Mendelsohn. After him are Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Robert Venturi, Giuliano da Sangallo, Louis Kahn, Richard Rogers, and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.

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Among people born in 1906, Philip Johnson ranks 55. Before him are Ettore Majorana, Empress Wanrong, John Huston, Lon Chaney Jr., Marie José of Belgium, and Hans Asperger. After him are Oleg Antonov, Giuseppe Siri, Robert E. Howard, Marcel Carné, Edmond Debeaumarché, and Bugsy Siegel. Among people deceased in 2005, Philip Johnson ranks 35. Before him are Ed McBain, Pat Morita, Henry Taube, Lucien Laurent, Milton Obote, and Maria Schell. After him are James Callaghan, Max Schmeling, George F. Kennan, Akira Yoshizawa, Moustapha Akkad, and Birgit Nilsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Johnson ranks 1,143 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Ludlum (1927), William Saroyan (1908), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lenny Kravitz (1964), William Perry (1927), and Julian Schwinger (1918). After him are Phylicia Rashad (1948), Barbara Stanwyck (1907), Mike Wallace (1918), Michael Cimino (1939), Steve Buscemi (1957), and Ferid Murad (1936).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Philip Johnson ranks 5. Before him are Buckminster Fuller (1895), Louis Sullivan (1856), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), and Richard Meier (1934). After him are Robert Venturi (1925), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), and Adrian Smith (1944).

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