Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects

by Goldberger, Paul; Johnson, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781580930840
• ISBN10: 1580930840
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-28
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

Philip Johnson, who died in 2005, was a towering figure in American architecture, both sensing and establishing new directions and stylistic trends. This monograph covers the last decade of his professional life, as he and partner Alan Ritchie collaborated on projects of striking creativity and originality. Ritchie, born in England, worked with Johnson for over twenty years and continues as president of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects. This volume includes work built and unbuilt, large-scale and small, designed by the firm throughout the 1990s. Two important themes -- identified by Paul Goldberger in his perceptive introductory essay -- are evident throughout the office's oeuvre. An interest in sculptural form -- or the way in which sculptural form translates into architectural presence -- led Johnson and Ritchie to designs that involve both new kinds of shapes and new ways of using classical architectural form. Such sculptural works include Da Monsta, the new visitor's pavilion at Johnson's famed Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and a spectacular folly consisting of four pyramids made of chain-link fencing at a private residence in upstate New York. Simultaneously, the firm has continued to design larger projects, for which it has been well known since the 1980s. A twenty-seven-story apartment tower for Hudson Square in lower Manhattan, the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, and an addition to the Amon Carter Museum (originally designed by Johnson in 1961) in Fort Worth show Johnson and Ritchie's skillful commingling of the modernist and the classicist, the contextual and the unique.

Author Biography

Paul Goldberger is the architectural critic and a staff writer at the New Yorker.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Alan Ritchie
Introduction	9	(3)
Paul Goldberger
1991
St. Basil Chapel at the University of St. Thomas	12	(10)
1992
Millennia Walk in Pontiac Marina	22	(4)
American Business Center at Checkpoint Charlie	26	(10)
Berlin Fantasy	36	(2)
1993
Greater Shanghai Shopping Center	38	(2)
Borden Hall, Manhattan School of Music	40	(2)
Visitor's Pavilion (Da Monsta), Glass House	42	(8)
1994
Berlin Glockenturm	50	(2)
Riverside South Residential Towers	52	(6)
National Museum of Korea	58	(2)
Sugar Foods Corporate Offices	60	(2)
1995
New Art Center at Century Center	62	(6)
Cathedral of Hope	68	(6)
Celebration Town Hall	74	(2)
Trump International Hotel and Tower	76	(2)
Ville de Tremblay	78	(2)
1996
Turning Point at Case Western Reserve University	80	(2)
TimeSculpture at Lincoln Center	82	(4)
McKinley Center Master Plan	86	(4)
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Headquarters	90	(4)
1997
Amon Carter Museum Expansion	94	(4)
Times Square Site 3	98	(2)
Times Square Site 4	100	(2)
1998
Turning Point Park at Case Western Reserve University	102	(4)
Chrysler Center East Tower Renovation and Expansion	106	(6)
333 Westchester Avenue	112	(6)
First Union Plaza	118	(4)
Ski House	122	(4)
1999
Chain Link Garden Pavilion	126	(6)
Texas A&M School of Architecture	132	(2)
Silver Cities: China for the Four Seasons Restaurant	134	(2)
Children's Museum of Guadalajara	136	(6)
Guangzhou Opera House	142	(2)
Philadelphia's Church of Our Savior	144	(2)
Venezuelan Consulate	146	(2)
Rotterdam Tower	148	(2)
CBX Office Tower A at La Defense	150	(2)
CBX Office Tower B at La Defense	152	(2)
Pool House	154	(2)
The Oasis	156	(4)
Avenue des Morgines Office Complex	160	(2)
Domus Design Collection Furniture Showroom	162	(6)
2000
Private Residence	168	(2)
Chavasse Park Retail Center	170	(2)
Vacation House on Providenciales	172	(2)
Apartments at 328 Spring Street	174	(6)
A.I.G. Headquarters Building	180	(5)
Employee List	185	(1)
Project Credits	186	(5)
Biographies	191