TY - BOOK AU - Petit,Emmanuel AU - Colomina,Beatriz TI - Philip Johnson: the constancy of change SN - 9780300121810 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - NA737.J6 P57 2009 U1 - 720.92 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press, In association with the Yale University School of Architecture KW - Johnson, Philip, KW - Architecture KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Architects N1 - Includes index; Roaming through history -- Philip Johnson: art and irony / Vincent Scully -- The autobiographical house: around a haunted hearth / Kurt W. Forster -- Philip Johnson: act one, scene one -- The museum of modern art? / Terence Riley with Joshua Sacks -- Johnson on TV / Beatriz Colomina -- Society, power, and politics -- The figurehead: on monumentality and Nihilism in Philip Johnson's life and work / Joan Ockman -- Liquidity: architecture and oil / Reinhold Martin -- Philip Johnson's empire: network power and the AT&T building / Kazys Varnelis -- Philip Johnson and the smile of Medusa / Charles Jencks -- The plot against architecture / Michael Sorkin -- Reckoning with modernism -- The delicacy of modern tastes / Detlef Mertins -- Playboy architecture then and now / Stanislaus von Moos -- Philip Johnson: breaking with modernism--the "whence & whither" of it / Phillis Lambert -- Reaction design / Mark Wigley -- Theory -- Philip Johnson: romanticism and disintegration / Peter Eisenman -- Philip Johnson and the rhetoric of the new: Panta Rhei versus the avant-garde / Ujjval Vyas -- Working out Johnson's role in history / Mark Jarzombek -- The new canaan estate: a gallery UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0818/2008021330.html ER -