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Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson worked as a client, critic, author, historian and museum director before entering architectural practice.
Background & practice
Philip Johnson worked as a client, critic, author, historian and museum director before entering architectural practice. His Glass House in New Canaan was designed as his master's thesis and completed in 1949. He later collaborated with Mies van der Rohe on New York's Seagram Building and worked with John Burgee. The official biography presents a career that moved from promoting modern architecture to revising its assumptions through subsequent commissions.
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