On November 27, 2018, for our series Voices on Art, in collaboration with Arts & Letters Live and the Dallas Museum of Art, Art This Week Productions recorded Mark Lamster in Conversation with Rick Brettell on the architect Philip Johnson. Lamster’s biography of Johnson, The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century, was published by Little, Brown and Company (November 6, 2018).
From the DMA website–“When architect Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was one of the most recognizable and influential figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA’s founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America’s leading architects with his famous Glass House in New Caanan, Connecticut. Johnson introduced European modernism to America through the sleek glass-and-steel structures that now dominate our cities; he also mentored and inspired generations of architects, designers, and artists. But Johnson was also a man of deep paradoxes: he was a Nazi sympathizer, a designer of synagogues, an enfant terrible into his old age, a populist, and a snob. The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson’s controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man.
Mark Lamster is the architectural critic for the Dallas Morning News and a professor in the architecture school at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also the author of two works of nonfiction, Spalding’s World Tour, about baseball, and Master of Shadows, about artist Peter Paul Rubens. Art historian, critic, and professor Rick Brettell knew Johnson personally and will moderate the conversation.”
Thanks to the Mark and Rick for allowing us to film the talk. Thanks also to Dallas Museum of Art and Arts & Letters Live staff for their help in recording this talk.
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