HeightsGuy Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Don't know if anyone has posted this yet...... Architect Philip Johnson dies 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Don't know if anyone has posted this yet......Architect Philip Johnson dies<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Where is/was the RepublicTower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 wow, i new he was older. i guess i thought he'd live forever. he made an extraordinary impact on design in houston. i'm truly sad to see him gone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 Where is/was the RepublicTower?Bank of America:Gables Galore! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Bank of America:Gables Galore!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ah yes. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 This is sad. Now, we can think of the Williams tower as a shining beacon of a monument to him! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 Can people post links to other works of his? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 This is sad. Now, we can think of the Williams tower as a shining beacon of a monument to him!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I didn't know that he was the creator of Williams. Now I understand where the Art-Deco influence comes from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Houston:Pennzoil PlaceBoA CenterWilliam's TowerCorpus Christi:Art Museum of South Texas, TheDallas:Bank One CenterMinneapolis:IDS CenterAtlanta:One Atlantic Center 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 You forgot 191 Peachtree 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 there are a bunch i didnt put on there 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 He also designed many of the buildings on the University of St. Thomas campus, as well as several smaller projects in Houston. And several of his students have also influenced local architecture with styles that are greatly inspired by Johnson. He will definitely be greatly missed in the design world 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astro Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Wow, he was definitely one of the greats. He'll be missed but his legacy will carry on... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 Ahh, that's right, he designed St. Basils didn't he. Hands down the most striking and peaceful sanctuary in Houston. One of the great jewels of our town. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Oh yeah that reminds me.. he was the original architect of the Rothko Chapel over at the Menil aswell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_oneal Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 this is a recent article on the passing of the pioneering architect of some of houston's most famous buildings. complete article can be found and heard here..some of his most famous designs are the penzoil place complex, the ncnb center houston, and also the williams tower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Don't forget the Hines college of Architecture at UofH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 From the Houston Architecture Info web site (natch): Bank of America Center Chapel of Saint Basil Pennzoil Place Williams Tower UH College of Architecture Building Of course, how much involvement Johnson, himself, had will vary. Some just have his company's name on them. I don't know much about him, so feel free to correct me on any of these buildings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 "The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston was the only building in my career that I unashamedly copied from another architect, Claude-Nicholas Ledoux, an eighteenth-century French genius. His building was also an educational structure. I changed a few little things along the way."PHILIP JOHNSON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Thanks, there is a duplicate topic right here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Wow, I didn't realize they also did St Basils, Rothko, and the UH architecture building (although personally I really don't like the Rothko). It's amazing for one man to be responsible for so many of our local landmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 From a 1998 Metropolis interview:Don't influential architects -- say, you and Stern and maybe Eisenman -- play some role in defining that taste over time?I wish we did. Dear Mr. Jerry Hines is now the biggest developer in the world, and do I get a peep in? Not a peep.Are you being a little coy again? You can look back on everything you've done since 1932 and say that you haven't had any influence on the way people build in this country?I have only had that kind of influence in one place: Houston, Texas. It's mostly my buildings there. Nine buildings, and most of them were built by Jerry Hines.So you did get to build your city -- in Houston?Well, it was the nearest thing I could get. A building here and a building there, that's not a city. C'mon, that's beyond anyone's ability right now. But I have to say, through Jerry Hines I had what you call power, I guess, in that one place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 His New York Times obituary is the best article you'll find:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/arts/des...artner=homepageIt calls the Transco Tower "perhaps his finest skyscraper." We knew it all along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmancuso Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 my favorite architect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 "...He is survived by his long time partner, David..."Did I miss something here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 "...He is survived by his long time partner, David..."Did I miss something here?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>He was gay. I'm not but I would welcome them to move into my neighborhood. I'm sure within a short time the esplanades would be planted and yards blooming. Am I steroetyping here to say that many have an "artistic flair" and love to keep their properties nice? Is there some biochemical connection between homosexuality and right-brain artsy-ness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 He was gay. I'm not but I would welcome them to move into my neighborhood. I'm sure within a short time the esplanades would be planted and yards blooming. Am I steroetyping here to say that many have an "artistic flair" and love to keep their properties nice? Is there some biochemical connection between homosexuality and right-brain artsy-ness?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>They just don't have these wife things sucking every last creative tendency out of their souls.(so says the recently divorced guy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 They just don't have these wife things sucking every last creative tendency out of their souls.(so says the recently divorced guy)<{POST_SNAPBACK}>There is something to be said for less obligations/headaches, more simplicity and the flowering of creativity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 I remember that someone made a quote that said "Homosexuality was invented so men could be creative,and not have the burden of a wife and children". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowbrow Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 I remember that someone made a quote that said "Homosexuality was invented so men could be creative,a dn not have the burden of a wife and children".<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I could just imagine Dr. John Lienhard having an episode of Engines of Our Ingenuity on that quote. "Invented" hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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