Atlas Shrugged off this mortal coil: Philip Johnson's legacy reverberates.
There was something ominous about yesterday, and we don’t just mean hearing Dick Cheney speak stentorially about “freedom” and “terror” while visiting the death camps in Poland. As www.newcriterion.com reminds us in the most precise eulogy of its kind, the Swifty Lazar-spectacled architecture icon Philip Johnson died late Tuesday night at 98.
Pulling no punches, Criterion dwells as much on his Mies van der Rohe period – which gave this city most of its matchbox-shaped buildings North of Grand Central, including the AT&T building – as on his passionate flirt with National Socialism, which the slight dynamo never sought to deny.
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