The Houses of Philip Johnson

Examining all of Johnson's houses

By examining all of Johnson's houses, authors Stover Jenkins and David Mohney, both architects, help us understand the Glass House as an expression of Johnson's developing thought. Focusing first on Johnson's student work at Harvard and his early commissions, they show how the Glass House reflects Johnson's concentrated study not only of pioneering modern architects including Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, but of masters of previous centuries such as Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Glass House and other buildings

They detail the three-year design process of the Glass House, and then show how Johnson moved beyond the influence of Mies to create a remarkably diverse body of work - one that is nevertheless unified by characteristic themes, like Johnson's inventive development of the Miesian court-house scheme, and his articulation of space by the use of connected pavilions.

Thirty built and forty unbuilt projects

Supporting a critical account of approximately thirty built and forty unbuilt projects, the book includes numerous plans and drawings, many never before published, and historical photographs. New color photographs by Steven Brooke capture the ways Johnson has used light, space, and landscape to create some of modernism's most appealing houses. Essential reading for architects and students, this book is also a vital resource for the study of one of modern architecture's most influential figures.

Stover Jenkins and Steven Brooke

Stover Jenkins is an architect who practices in New York City. Stover Jenkins was formerly associated with Philip Johnson's office. Architect and critic David Mohney is dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, is the author of The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Steven Brooke is a Miami-based photographer.