Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson (b. 1906) is the dean of American architecture. He was important in both the International style, co-authoring an important book with that title while a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, as well as post-modern architecture, when he partnered with John Burgee (see article for collaborative works).

His most famous building is his own house, made entirely of glass and steel. This glass house (1949) may not have had much going for it in terms of livability, but was a high-water mark for modernist architecture. He also designed the 1958 Seagram Building in New York (with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), one of the first glass box skyscrapers.

Johnson was awarded the first Pritzker Prize in architecture in 1979.