105 years ago, American architect Philip Johnson was born

Cleveland - American architect Philip Johnson became famous as the author of the unique Glass House, which was essentially a glass prism with glass walls set into a steel structure. Johnson was also the first to receive the most prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was born on July 8, 1906, in Cleveland, Ohio.
     His glass house from 1949, which he built in New Canaan, Connecticut, became the embodiment of modern architectural principles based on simple form (prism) and the connection of external and internal space: although a person is inside, they are actually outside as well.
     Johnson was a bold but also controversial figure. He initially studied philosophy at Harvard and dedicated himself to architecture as a theorist, historian, and critic. In 1932, for example, he organized a groundbreaking exhibition on modern architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the early 1940s, he returned to Harvard and became a licensed architect.
     In the 1930s, he committed a human failure - he openly sympathized with fascism. Later, he saw through it. He gradually moved from functionalism to postmodernism, becoming the first recipient of the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1979. He died on January 25, 2005, in Connecticut.

Johnson's first realization - The Booth House in Bedford, NY (1946) - is available for 2 million US dollars (the artwork is offered by Crosby Doe Associates gallery)