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Also Known As Philip Cortelyou Johnson
Born July 8, 1906 • Cleveland • Ohio
Died January 25, 2005 (aged 98) • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Pritzker Prize (1979)
Movement / Style International Style • postmodernism

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Philip Johnson: Glass House
Philip Johnson: Glass House
Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
The Seagram Building, a tall, dark glass and steel skyscraper with a rectangular shape, stands among other high-rise buildings in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
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American architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
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American architect
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American architect
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Richard Morris Hunt
American architect
Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
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American engineer and architect
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
American architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
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Hungarian architect
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
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American architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
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Brazilian architect
Le Corbusier
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Swiss architect
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Swiss architect
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Pierre de Meuron
Swiss architect
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
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American architect

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