First House - The Grid, the Figure & the Void
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CHRISTIAN BJONE is a practising architect in New York City, and has received a masters degree in Architecture from Princeton University. He has acted as editor for several books including Philip Johnson: Recent Work (Wiley, 1994) and Philip Johnson: Built Work (Birkhauser, 1992). He has written on current design topics for Octogon magazine.

ROBERT WALKER is a professional photographer and practising architect in Jersey City, New Jersey. He has a degree in Architecture from the University of Tennessee. His photographs have appeared in such journals as Architectural Digest, Newsweek and Golf Digest.

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Part I: The Bauhaus influence and Harvard's first modern architects.

Introduction: on the pendulum or at the fulcrum?

Gropius and Breuer: opposite sides of the same coin.

Barnes: the puzzle of post-war housing.

Franzen: the hut and the machine.

Johansen: the figure within the field.

Philip Johnson assisted by Landis Gores: two roads diverged within a wood.

Noyes: the perfect student.

Pei: memory of a garden.

Rudolph: the prodigal son return.

Part II: Spreading the word, far and wide: the influence on other designers.

Stoller: photographer as modern architect.

Blake: writer as modern architect.

Scully: historian as modern architect.

Afterword by Philip Johnson.

Appendix.

Timeline.

Published Notes.

Select Bibliography.

Index.

End Piece.

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"…beautifully produced, clever and thoughtful…" (The 20th Century Society Newsletter, September 2002)

"…shows the pleasure of discovery that the author obviously experienced doing research for the book…" (DOCOMO, Winter 2002)

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