Philip Johnson

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Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson AKA Philip Cortelyou Johnson

Born: 8-Jul-1906
Birthplace: Cleveland, OH
Died: 25-Jan-2005
Location of death: New Canaan, CT
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Agnostic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay [1]
Occupation: Architect

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Glass House

Military service: US Army (Corps of Engineers)

Awarded the Pritzker Prize in architecture in 1979.

[1] American Culture's Debt to Gay Sons of Harvard (Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, 29th May 2003.) See also The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality and the Shaping of American Culture (2003), by Douglass Shand-Tucci.

Father: Homer H. Johnson (attorney)
Mother: Louise

University: BA Philosophy, Harvard University (1927)
University: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (attended 1940-43)

Museum of Modern Art Director, Dept. of Architecture (1932-)
Academy of Achievement (1991)
Pritzker Prize 1979

Author of books:
The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 (1932, architecture, with Henry-Russell Hitchcock)
Mies van der Rohe (1947)

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