NP - Philip Johnson: Maestro of Manipulation

[David Morris]

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/18/philip-johnson-godfather/?fbclid=IwAR2t1K8R6ZFX8FGUlxlcxTYUMlwNr729p-8eUyQ2JUx5H84-WqwsFQGbQQE


 As a young architecture writer I resolved to steer clear of all
enterprises that involved Philip Johnson, convinced that this charming
cultural corrupter, as I saw him, was the very antithesis of my socially
conscious role model, the architecture critic Lewis Mumford. Avoidance of
Johnson, however, was easier imagined than accomplished.