the constancy of change Petit, Emmanuel 1973- Colomina, Beatriz. text ctu New Haven Yale University Press In association with the Yale University School of Architecture c2009 2009 monographic eng

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ix, 278 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 28 cm. Roaming through history -- Philip Johnson: art and irony / Vincent Scully -- The autobiographical house: around a haunted hearth / Kurt W. Forster -- Philip Johnson: act one, scene one -- The museum of modern art? / Terence Riley with Joshua Sacks -- Johnson on TV / Beatriz Colomina -- Society, power, and politics -- The figurehead: on monumentality and Nihilism in Philip Johnson's life and work / Joan Ockman -- Liquidity: architecture and oil / Reinhold Martin -- Philip Johnson's empire: network power and the AT&T building / Kazys Varnelis -- Philip Johnson and the smile of Medusa / Charles Jencks -- The plot against architecture / Michael Sorkin -- Reckoning with modernism -- The delicacy of modern tastes / Detlef Mertins -- Playboy architecture then and now / Stanislaus von Moos -- Philip Johnson: breaking with modernism--the "whence & whither" of it / Phillis Lambert -- Reaction design / Mark Wigley -- Theory -- Philip Johnson: romanticism and disintegration / Peter Eisenman -- Philip Johnson and the rhetoric of the new: Panta Rhei versus the avant-garde / Ujjval Vyas -- Working out Johnson's role in history / Mark Jarzombek -- The new canaan estate: a gallery. edited by Emmanuel Petit ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern ; essays by Beatriz Colomina ... [et al.]. Includes index. Johnson, Philip 1906-2005 Criticism and interpretation Architecture United States History 20th century Architects United States NA737.J6 P57 2009 720.92 9780300121810 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300121814 (cloth : alk. paper) 2008021330 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0818/2008021330.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0818/2008021330.html DLC 080508 20170127085914.0 15294693