Charlie Rose - Philip Johnson

[carsan11]

One of the greatest!

[VivekRajcoomar]

EVERYONE PLS! watch reply some guy posted for this video. i was watching the reply and only got it when i saw this guy.

[sdjnwhy]

Thank you for posting!It's really fantastic that you have so much useful resourses. :)

[flexwheelR]

what a great man.

[VivekRajcoomar]

mom?

[cohenleeor]

sad one of his last projects was the first gay church good contribution to gods earth

[yohei72]

A charming presence to be sure, but screw him. Another perpetrator of criminally ugly and inhuman buildings. People like Johnson and Gehry will have their names cursed when we've gotten over the sad architectural era we've been in over the last fifty years and more. We'll be stuck having to figure out how to get rid of the ghastly behemoths they've inflicted on the surface of our planet like out-of-control acne.

[woaisansan]

even hardcore modernists don't appreciate such small, rigid thinking.

[yohei72]

One person's "small, rigid thinking" is another person's... oh, I don't know... "standards." You've got yours and I've got mine. Unfortunately, yours seem to be the ones largely dominating architecture for decades. That "Bird's Nest" atrocity at the Beijing Olympics comes to mind as just one of the latest examples.

[Impresioniste]

In future, only his architecture will talk for they. Not tv, not newspaper, not prices, not polithicians, etc. And their works is very bad compared to Mies, Lecorbusier, Miguel Angel, etc.

And then we will laugh.

[loui5friend]

There's a saying you should think about:

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, criticise.

[yohei72]

Are only architects allowed to criticize architects? Or are only their fans allowed to comment on them? Do you object to the many positive comments, most of them presumably from people who "don't do"?

Artists, especially architects, put their work in the public eye, and often with public dollars. The public is entitled, indeed obliged, to comment, and not just bow.

Perhaps YOU should think a little more before regurgitating cliched non-responses that amount to "Stay in your place, peasant."

[woaisansan]

I that it fortunate that you have yours and I have mine. I don't like any of the buildings you've listed either but I still acknowledge them as part of culture. You certainly have the right to judge the architecture itself, but you do not have the right to judge the opinions of others.

[woaisansan]

The fact is that you have no idea how the public will look back and see these buildings in 100 years and it is on that basis that I said your thinking was rigid and small. There is much to learn about architecture from everyone and everything and every project.

[woaisansan]

Although to be fair, given some thought, it is not that simple. Recently it has solely become the architect's responsibility to LEARN about architecture and that is a problem. It's so easy to criticize the things happening in Dubai and China but it was not so long ago that Chicago and New York were being criticized in the exact same way, and now they are cultural icons and swarming with preservationists. Architecture reflects society and the only way to change anything is to have perspective.

[sdjnwhy]

I agree with you.  :)

[historywillabsolve]

my god he was 90 and still sharp as a tack.

[yohei72]

If you're going to attempt rhyming homophobia, at least spell it right. I wonder why borderline illiteracy is so often associated with such bigotry... Oh, wait, I don't.

[Galvan666]

I think the Chapel at the University of Sain Thomas here in Houston was designed by Philip Johnson. I made it all the way to Senior at St. Thomas before I dropped out in 1986. I'm 51 now. At least I can say that I earned an AA in Economics from Houston Community College. We can't always have it all. I've been running for Mayor of Houston since 1986. Maybe I should have listened to that Astrologer on a radio show that I called into(Or maybe not!)

MayorGalvan

[nfest8]

Haha- it's funny how he talks shit about his friends in publications. Anyway, I like his style better than someone like Santiago Calatrava because he varies his work. He has a blank slate on every project as opposed Calatrava that has a certain signature or style. All of his works look the same.

[ottaviani56]

theorientation buildingwas built finished out buy iggy vargas a plastering contactor in kasas city /kc great mind

[SolarTango]

Thanks for sharing this extraordinary interview!!

[fxany]

Thank you Charlie for sharing your passion for learning.