Charles Renfro at the Glass House

Here the architect looks at Philip Johnson and his work in one of the most compelling and convincing ways I’ve heard: the he used elements of modernism, as well as many other sources of architecture and design, not as a means to argue for *the* way one should live, but to socialize and demonstrate an alternative way of living. “The Lady Gaga of architecture,” he calls Johnson at one point.

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