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Happy birthday to Philip Johnson

liberty bell

The dude is 98 today. Say what you will about his work, but his impact on American architecture has been enormous. Cheers, man.

 
Jul 8, 04 3:24 pm
le bossman

keith richards is pickling himself

Jul 8, 04 3:27 pm  · 
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aeaa

a frozen head does not count as still living! what they did with his body? no one is sure...........

Jul 8, 04 3:30 pm  · 
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wow he has the same birthday as my late father , i did not know that , maybe that is why PJ is the man

Jul 8, 04 3:38 pm  · 
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aml

philip johnson is the mr. burns of architecture

nobody believes me.

i think he has a deal with the underworld or something. or he's sustaining himself with some youth's blood, like mr burns does in some simpsons halloween episode i think.

Jul 8, 04 5:58 pm  · 
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CREAM

it's still my hope to one day meet him before he kicks the bucket. the man is walking history.

Jul 8, 04 10:18 pm  · 
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agarch

hes holding up cause hes not taking crap, figuratively and literally

Jul 9, 04 1:13 am  · 
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futureboy

he should attribute his long life and old age to living in a glass house. it could totally change the way people (the public) think about modernism.

Jul 9, 04 5:59 pm  · 
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Janosh

His longetivity may also be a result of life-prolonging technologies obtained when he was cozying up to the Nazis in the 30s.

Jul 10, 04 12:09 am  · 
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jetcetera

Eeeeeeeeeeexcellent...

Jul 10, 04 2:48 am  · 
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Maybe it's a diet of chicken that keeps Philip alive.

From Andy Warhol's diary:
Thursday, September 5, 1986
Worked till 8:00. Took Wilfredo and Sam with me to dinner at Castellano with Philip Johnson and David Whitney. David wasn't drinking so he was reserved. Philip was thrilled with the young kids. We walked back to Philip and David's apartment and they invited us up, it was the first time they were having people, and some kids were coming out of the building as we were going in and they yelled dirty things like, "You're going up to fuck." It was great up there, my Cow wallpaper in the bathroom. ...

Jul 10, 04 11:27 am  · 
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silverlake

i can't understand why he is so famous. he's made a career out of copying others. when he was aping mies he did some work that wasn't terrible (glass house) but it all went south after that.

Jul 10, 04 4:57 pm  · 
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Vladimir Pootin


"aping mies"

Jul 10, 04 5:06 pm  · 
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