Brick
-
Newyork
An Opaque Philip Johnson House Reopens After 15 Years
The architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House, a rectangular glass-and-steel residence set on a grassy shelf above a wooded bluff in New Canaan, Conn., has epitomized a certain East Coast ideal of midcentury elegance since its completion in 1949. Before ...
-
Books
Philip Johnson’s Brick House and Its Hidden Boudoir, Exposed
Diptych, dyad, dialectic: The relationship between the first pair of buildings Philip Johnson designed for his estate in New Canaan, Conn., has taxed the metaphorical imaginations of critics and architectural historians since the structures were ...