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On Philip Johnson and Sex Machines

I will be speaking on Tuesday, September 23rd at UCLA's Hammer Museum at a panel discussion entitled "Architecture and Seduction
Bachelor Pads and Sex Machines." I'm excited about the talk, which gives me a chance to focus on Johnson's Glass House in some depth, and about the panel discussion with Paulette Singley, Frank Escher, Renata Hejduk, and Norman Millar. Please come if you are in the Los Angeles area. For more of my work on Johnson see Philip Johnson's Empire and We Cannot Not Know History. And don't forget about my new book coming out this fall, The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interview with Robert A. M. Stern. It's a steal to pre-order at Amazon.

 

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Submitted by admin on 14 September, 2008 - 10:01.
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philip johnson tapes

In looking back at the blog, I realize that I haven't mentioned a project that I'm bringing to closure this month. For the Buell Center, I've been editing the Philip Johnson Tapes, a set of interviews that Robert Stern conducted with Johnson in 1985 about the architect's life. It's been a fascinating process since this document not only surveys Johnson biographically, it also reveals Johnson's role as the consummate networker, something I explore further in my essay "Philip Johnson's Empire" for the forthcoming Yale University Press book on the architect. I do have intentions of one day doing a critical survey of Johnson, but that will have to wait. With this out of the way, Networked Publics in final copy edits, and Infrastructural City printed this spring (I hope), it'll be time for me to spend my year on the Network Culture project, something I'm very much looking forward to. 

 

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