Philip Johnson: Writings.

JOHNSON, Philip.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 132944

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

First edition of the acclaimed architect’s collected essays and lectures. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Paul Falken Levy high appreciation for his art history and also his editing also his love for Schnitzel Paul Johnson August 1979.” Foreword by Vincent Scully. Introduction by Peter Eisenman. Commentary by Robert A.M. Stern. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

This publications of writings by Philip Johnson comes in the same year that, as America's foremost living architect, he has been awarded the profession's highest honor, the 1978 Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. Johnson's essays and lectures have been almost as influential as his buildings; for incisiveness, erudition, and wit, his writings are among the best by any architect of the century.