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Uploaded by on Dec 10, 2008

Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive in the Duke University Libraries: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dsva/
Diamonstein-Spielvogel interviews Johnson about his life, his buildings, and contemporary architecture.

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  • Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this interview.

    Thank you!

  • @DukeLibDigitalColl

    I admired Philip Johnson for many things among them, allowing his designs to evolve over the decades! To have begun such a brilliant career as a protégé of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the Bauhaus' "International Style" and end up the darling of the "Post Modern" devotees is remarkable, not to mention having headed the MOMA in New York City for years! But I am most proud of the fact that he was a completely "out" queer(LGBT/gay) person! Awsome!

    Blaine

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  • Cool video... very informative... thanks for sharing.. :)

  • Brilliant and so impressive.

  • Long-form interviews such as this are rare in today's sound-bite driven media circus. Overall, the written biographies on Philip Johnson don't quite seem to capture the nuances that Ms. Diamonstein ellicits from him during this nearly 50-minute interview, particularly regarding the sub-discussion of "rooms" as they relate to buildings' broader designs. Moreover, I wasn't aware of Johnson's lack of respect for formal education, although I just found out it is apparently well known. Intriguing!

  • This man makes me want to be an architect sooo bad. It's too bad college keeps fucking me up the ass and is preventing me from following that dream. 

  • askmum; off course it is!!!!!!, human need is the foundation of every design, research, investigation, etc. off all ages in history.

    you're not writing contradictory statements, you're actually exposing remarkable ideas.

  • The Design input for a house, a car, a jumper is the same!!!!!!!! Discuss ;)

  • thxs dude for that interview!! it was helpful!!

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