Architect Philip Johnson s Name Covered Up at the MoMA housebeautiful.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from housebeautiful.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Architect Philip Johnson. Photo: Horst P. Horst/Condé Nast via Getty Images.
A collective of artists and designers will obscure architect Philip Johnson’s name from a gallery dedicated to him at the Museum of Modern Art during the run of the museum’s current exhibition about architecture and the communities of the African diaspora, “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America.”
Johnson, the famed Modernist architect with well-documented fascist and white supremacist views, will have his name covered by a 10-by-10 foot denim textile conceived by the Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC), a nonprofit group formed by 10 architects and designers in the show.
MoMA agrees to temporarily cover Philip Johnson s name with Black Reconstruction Collective artwork archinect.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archinect.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Glass Houses: Designer of IDS Center was Nazi sympathizer
The architect of the IDS Center, Philip Johnson, was a Nazi sympathizer, reports show.
(FOX 9) - Nearly 50 years ago, the IDS Center became the star of the Minneapolis skyline. At 57-stories it remains the city’s tallest building.
Glass houses: Designer of IDS Center was Nazi sympathizer
Philip Johnson, the architect who designed the IDS Center in Minneapolis, had Nazi sympathies and fascist leanings.
Johnson was already one of the most famous architects in America for his ‘Glass Houses,’ but the IDS Center placed him in the stratosphere of so-called starchitects, sought after by corporate clients to build signature skyscrapers around the world.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design will no longer refer to one of its houses as the Philip Johnson Thesis House in response to an open letter criticizing its namesakeâs white supremacist views, Dean Sarah M. Whiting wrote in a letter last month.
Though the house did not have an official name, it was often called the Philip Johnson Thesis House or Thesis House because it was the thesis project of architect Philip C. Johnson â27 when he attended the GSD in the 1940s. The building, which is owned by the GSD, will now be formally referred to by its physical address: 9 Ash St.