Johnson in Popular Culture
He is mentioned in the song "Thru These Architect's Eyes" on the album Outside (1995) by David Bowie.
Philip Johnson's Glass House, along with Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, was the subject of Sarah Morris's film 'Points on a Line' (2010). Morris filmed at both sites over the course of several months, among other locations including The Four Seasons Restaurant, the Seagrams Building, Mies van der Roheʼs infamous Lake Shore Drive, and Chicagoʼs Newberry Library. Morris utilized The Four Seasons, a place that Philip Johnson practically used as his personal office, as the meeting point between the two architects. The restaurant remains a site of projection and desire – active as a site of negotiation and display. Morrisʼs film is both a record of preservation of two structures and a document of power plays that left a mark in the pragmatic idealism of the late modern period.
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