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Philip Johnson & Texas

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Johnson and Texas, what a wonderful mix. I always loved Philip Johnson, the man and the work. He was such a brutally honest person and his work really defined the skylines of Houston and Dallas. I love the Transco, now Williams Tower, and his Republic Bank Building in Houston, they are soaring and harken back to the great Art Deco Buildings of the 20's and 30's. This book does of fine job of research and gets the right mix of photos and text, though you can never have too many photos for my taste. Houston definitely got the better buildings in Texas, Johnson always admitted that, but his buildings in Dallas are pure Johnson and are wonderful in their own way. This book is a nice tribute to Johnson and though he was blessed with a long, highly adverturous life, he will be missed.

Book design: Heidi A. Haeuser. This book won book design awards by Publishers Association of the West (2001), and by The Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books Exhibition (2001).

On the other hand, Philip Johnson was an active fascist sympathizer and active propagandist for the Nazi government, who had tried to implement fascism in USA for at least 8 years between 1932 and 1940. Details of this past are described in "WE CANNOT NOT KNOW HISTORY:" PHILIP JOHNSON'S POLITICS AND CYNICAL SURVIVAL by KAZYS VARNELIS in Journal of Architectural Education, November 1994 published also on the Internet, and also discussed at http://arch.designcommunity.com/viewtopic.php?t=3709.