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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...

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 o...

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 namesake’s 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 ’27 when he attended the GSD in the 1940s. The building, wh...

Architecture news & editorial desk A group of architects, designers, artists and academics has urged New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to remove architect Philip Johnson’s name from their galleries and titles on account of his ‘fascist’ past. Philip Johnson, one of the most celebrated architects of the 20th century, was responsible for the design of museums, theatres, libraries, houses, gardens and corporate buildings, many of which were architectural masterpieces. He was also the ...

Copy The Harvard Graduate School of Design (Harvard GSD) will no longer refer to a private residence at 9 Ash Street in Cambridge as the “Philip Johnson Thesis House.” Moving forward, the home, designed by and inhabited by Johnson while enrolled at the Harvard GSD in the 1940s, will now be known solely by its physical street address. The move, announced by Harvard GSD dean Sarah M. Whiting in a December 5 letter, comes days after the Johnston Study Group, a largely anonymous collective dedi...

MoMa urged to drop Philip Johnsons name over architects fascist past Miranda Bryant in New York © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Pictorial Parade/Getty Images New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is under growing pressure to remove Philip Johnson’s name from its galleries and titles after Harvard addressed the late architect’s legacy at the university, saying his history of racism, fascism and white supremacy had “absolutely no place in design”. The dean of ...

Philip Johnsons first building renamed amid protest over architects "white supremacist views" US architecture and design school Harvard GSD has removed Philip Johnsons name from a house he built while studying at the institution in response to a campaign calling for a rethink of the Nazi-supporting late architects legacy. Harvard Graduate School of Design announced this week it has renamed the house Johnson designed and built in the 1940s as his GSD thesis project. Formerly known as Philip Jo...