01804cam a2200325 i 4500 369567816 TxGeo 20190205120000.0 181210s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316126434 hbk. 0316126438 hbk. (OCoLC)1059578638 TxGeo rda Lamster, Mark, 1969- The man in the glass house : Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century / Mark Lamster. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. xvii, 508 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-490) and index. A major new biography of Philip Johnson, an extraordinary architect whose politics and proclivities made him one of the most controversial figures in American cultural history. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, he introduced America to modernism and promoted generations of architects, designers, and artists. His own work (most prominently the Glass House and the Chippendale-capped AT&T Building New York) was polarizing, yet can be found in most every major American city. Johnson was a man of deep paradoxes: A Nazi sympathizer who later built synagogues and supported Israel, an opportunist and a romantic, a populist and a snob. 20190205. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - 2018. Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005. Architects United States Biography. Biographies. QS5