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Originally Posted by Crawford
Phillip Johnson, to me, had highly variable quality. He had a few world-class works, and then lots of derivative dreck, and by the end, he was mailing it in.
His earlier work makes him an extremely important figure in architecture, though.
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exactly
it's his earlier works that gives his later works some notoriety...the mere fact that they were designed by philip johnson, not the quality of the architecture. his stuff from the 80's and beyond were ok (though transco one of my favs due to art deco queues) but it was his work from the 40's through the mid 70's that stood out.
same is true for houston's jpmorgan chase tower, it is a i.m. pei building built in 1982 but no where near the caliber of the bank of china or the louvre
@ molson, last time i was in louisville, i went out of my way to look for that thing...it was just as magnificent in real life.
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