The Architecture of Philip Johnson, the International Style

Name: The Architecture of Philip Johnson, the International Style
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Modern Architecture Series at Twin Peaks Adademy

Created byFederico von Borstel

Last updated 9/2023

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What you'll learn

The Architecture of Philip Johnson and the International Style
The course enhances human development.
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Course content

1 section • 17 lectures • 1h 42m total length

Introduction3:27
Explore Philip Johnson and the international style, examining methods and materials, through projects like the Farnsworth House, glass house, Seagram Building, and the AT&T and Sony buildings.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 25:43
Trace Philip Johnson's career from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe-inspired design and the Barcelona Pavilion to MoMA leadership, highlighting controversial Nazi sympathies.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 34:31
MoMA defined the international style in 1932 with a show curated by Hitchcock and Philip Johnson. It introduced modern architecture to America, emphasizing volume over mass, industrial materials, and glass.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 48:52
Explore how steel and glass define the international style, from alloyed steel and I-beams to curtain walls. Understand attachment methods—welding, rivets, bolts, and connectors—and why glass attachments are critical.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 53:13
Explore the 1911–1913 German shoe last factory by Walter ropes, with banded windows, interior supporting columns, and a light, corner-free facade inspired by Le Corbusier’s domino module.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 67:28
Explore the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, just outside Chicago, a six-foot elevated steel-and-glass minimalist residence on a floodplain with perimeter columns and floor-to-ceiling glazing.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 75:25
Philip Johnson's 1941 thesis house in Cambridge merges interior and exterior through a glass-fronted living space and an enclosed courtyard, echoing the Barcelona Pavilion and Farnsworth House.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 88:55
Philip Johnson's glass house in New Canaan is a glass-walled rectangular prism that exemplifies the International Style, highlighting transparency, landscape, and minimal geometry.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 96:10
Explore Philip Johnson's 1948 demented house in Houston as his first commission, highlighting collaboration with interior designer Charles James and the clash of modernism with Frank Lloyd Wright influence.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 108:06
Explore the Seagram Building's Park Avenue presence as a landmark of modern architecture, highlighting high-strength bolted connections, brace and moment frames, vertical truss bracing, and X-braced design.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 116:19
Explore Philip Johnson's Ayman Carter Museum of American Art in Houston (1961), a triangular site with a glass curtain wall, Texas shell stone, and expanding exhibit spaces.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 126:45
Examine Philip Johnson's ideas center in downtown Minneapolis, its distinctive step-back zags and light-filled lobby, while noting structural issues like water leaks and glass breakage from a 1979 wind storm.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 133:22
Explore Pennzoil Place in Houston, a postmodern symphony of dark glass and trapezoid towers by Philip Johnson and John Burgess, shaping the skyline and earning the Pritzker Prize.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 144:40
Philip Johnson’s Christ Cathedral in Orange County, completed in 1981, features an all-glass overhead and side planes, with silicone-glue earthquake resilience and a gothic glass bell tower.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 154:01
Explore the postmodern transformation of the building at 560 Madison Avenue by Philip Johnson and John Burgess, blending glass and stone with a neo-roman arch and a chippendale-inspired crown.
The Architecture of Philip Johnson 165:52
Philip Johnson's Madrid towers (1989–1996) lean at 15 degrees, evolving from the glass house idea around a center core and two triangles—the keel towers.
Course Catalog9:23
Explore the course catalog of the International Style in Philip Johnson's architecture through a concise, repetitive sequence of phrases.

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Description

The Architecture of Philip Johnson and the International Style. This course is on the architecture and design of this very productive and influential American architect. Philip Johnson is the cornerstone and pioneer of the International Style. The International Style is most easily recognized by the use of steel structures and glass curtain walls. Philip Johnson is one of the key figures of Modern architecture. This course introduces you to some of his most iconic and influential buildings. Welcome! I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone interested in architecture and design.