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Philip JohnsonLatest Stories

Ow, She’s a Brick House!

Philip Johnson’s 1949 Brick House in New Canaan is being restored by Mark Stoner and the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Transition Time

The Glass House names Kirsten Reoch as its next executive director

garden space under white roof
Madison Avenue Glow Up

Snøhetta, Rockwell Group, and Gensler revamp a postmodern icon and add a backyard POPS

church surrounded by chain link fence
Biting the Dust

Demolition digest: A Venturi Scott Brown house, a Vermont church and landscape, and other (potentially) razed buildings

black and white shot of a man descending a concrete staircase in a waterfall
N95

Fort Worth architecture stars in Kendrick Lamar’s new music video

Sign and exterior of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with the philip johnson gallery now covered (reading moma)
Hang It Up

Philip Johnson’s name covered at MoMA for Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America

A collage put together by Eyal Weizman and Forensic Architecture showing smoke rising from a rendered cityscape, included in our 2020 biggest controversies roundup
Back At It Again

Here are the architecture stories that courted controversy in 2020

Extended Thanks

CallisonRTKL reimagines Philip Johnson’s Thanks-Giving Square in Dallas with pedestrian improvements

The philip johnson thesis house, a wood fence
A First Step

Harvard will remove Philip Johnson’s name from Cambridge home that he designed as graduate student

Phillip Johnson pointing at a diagram
Undoing a Harmful Legacy

Architects and designers call on the MoMA to remove Philip Johnson’s name

A winter photo of Philip Johnson's Glass House, half covered in tarps
Who Glasses the Glass House?

When the glass cracks at the Glass House, how is it replaced?

Rendering of outdoor public plaza covered by skeleton-like glass canopy and featuring tall trees, a water feature, and wooden circular benches behind 550 Madison
POPS-up

Snøhetta reveals new renderings of 550 Madison’s covered garden

A lobby with geometric granite floor tiles, a low brass accented wall with white marble above. Through a mirror in an archway a garden is visible, in the AT&T Building
Enter here

Gensler reveals new views of controversial AT&T Building lobby overhaul

Close up image of concrete towers with observation platforms, seen through uncovered tent structure that makes up the New York State Pavilion
Lights, Camera, Action!

The concrete towers of the New York State Pavilion are ready for restoration

Photo of Andy Warhol looking out the window of The Glass House
A GAY OLD TIME

The Glass House celebrates its 70th anniversary with retrospective of gay artists

Rendering of the AT&T Building's new entrance
100th Time's the Charm

Snøhetta’s revised AT&T Building scheme clears Landmarks Preservation Commission

Rendering of 550 Madison redesign
(Again)

Snøhetta brings revised AT&T Building plan before the Landmarks Preservation Commission

Rendering of 550 Madison redesign
Lighten Up

Snøhetta goes back to the drawing board with revised AT&T Building plans

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