Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects

Johnson, Philip

ISBN 10: 1580930840 / ISBN 13: 9781580930840

Published by Monacelli Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2003

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Philip Johnson is one of the outstanding figures in American architecture. He has both established and followed trends throughout his 70-year career. This volume contains work, both built and unbuilt, both large-scale and small, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects. Alan Ritchie has worked with Johnson since 1969; the firm was established in 1994. The projects shown may be divided into two groups. Johnson?s interest in the past decade in sculptural form (or the way in which sculptural form translates into architectural presence) has led to designs that involve both new kinds of shapes and new ways of using classic architectural form to make entirely new works of architecture. Such sculptural works, for the most part small in scale, include Da Monsta, the new visitors pavilion at Johnson?s famed Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and a spectacular folly consisting of four pyramids made of chain-link fencing at an estate in New York State. Simultaneously, the firm has continued its ongoing work with larger projects, such as a 27-story apartment tower for Tribeca, in lower Manhattan; the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas; an addition to the Amon Carter Museum, originally designed by Johnson in 1961, in Fort Worth, Texas; and a proposal for the architecture school at Texas A&M University in College Station. Also included are a pair of proposals for La DÈfense in Paris; three large houses; a new china design for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York; and a public clock, sponsored by Movado, for Lincoln Center. Brand new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects
• Publisher: Monacelli Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580930840
• ISBN 13: 9781580930840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arts, Architecture and Photography

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Synopsis

Philip Johnson, who died in 2005, was a towering figure in American architecture, both sensing and establishing new directions and stylistic trends. This monograph covers the last decade of his professional life, as he and partner Alan Ritchie collaborated on projects of striking creativity and originality. Ritchie, born in England, worked with Johnson for over twenty years and continues as president of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects. This volume includes work built and unbuilt, large-scale and small, designed by the firm throughout the 1990s. Two important themes -- identified by Paul Goldberger in his perceptive introductory essay -- are evident throughout the office's oeuvre. An interest in sculptural form -- or the way in which sculptural form translates into architectural presence -- led Johnson and Ritchie to designs that involve both new kinds of shapes and new ways of using classical architectural form. Such sculptural works include Da Monsta, the new visitor's pavilion at Johnson's famed Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and a spectacular folly consisting of four pyramids made of chain-link fencing at a private residence in upstate New York. Simultaneously, the firm has continued to design larger projects, for which it has been well known since the 1980s. A twenty-seven-story apartment tower for Hudson Square in lower Manhattan, the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, and an addition to the Amon Carter Museum (originally designed by Johnson in 1961) in Fort Worth show Johnson and Ritchie's skillful commingling of the modernist and the classicist, the contextual and the unique.

About the Author

Paul Goldberger is the architectural critic and a staff writer at the New Yorker.