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- Truth and Disguises: Philip Johnson and the Non-Miesian Directions
- Abstract
- The oeuvre of Philip Johnson can be described, says Roberto Gargiani, as a reaction to the work of Mies van der Rohe. Mies turned structural elements into symbolic icons of a new architectural order. The connections between these elements are at the base of Johnson’s artistic identity. He discovered a repertoire of forms by developing plastic variations of concrete, and by inventing a non- Miesian plasticity. Instead of making copies raisonnées of Mies’s buildings, Johnson ended up assigning a pop-aura to elements from the oeuvre of his preceptor.
- Citation
- Gargiani, R. (2016). Truth and Disguises: Philip Johnson and the Non-Miesian Directions. Action and Reaction in Architecture , OASE, (97), 61–70. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/97/TruthandDisguises
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