The Houses of Philip Johnson [精裝]

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Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, is one of the great works of architecture in America. Ironically, the fame of the Glass House has obscured Johnson's many other notable residential projects, which are surveyed here for the first time. The book is organized around a dozen or so key houses, with special attention paid to the Glass House and to its impact on other residential designs, by Johnson and by others.Prof. David Mohney covers the full range of Johnson's domestic architecture, with emphasis on his exploration of several recurring elements, including the inventive use of of courtyards, the distinctions between private and public space and the close attention he has always paid to how his buildings are sited within the landscape. In addition to analyzing these key works, the author has also discovered a number of little-known but nonetheless fascinating Johnson house designs, many of which were either never built or so altered over the years that they can be understood only through the drawings and plans presented here.The insightful, informative text is complemented by usually handsome photographs by Steven Brooke, which capture how Johnson used light, space, and landscape to create some of modernism's most appealing houses.