Awarded the Pritzker Prize in architecture in 1979.
[1] American Culture's Debt to Gay Sons of Harvard (Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, 29th May 2003.) See also The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality and the Shaping of American Culture (2003), by Douglass Shand-Tucci.
Father: Homer H. Johnson (attorney)
Mother: Louise
University: BA Philosophy, Harvard University (1927)
University: Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (attended 1940-43)
Museum of Modern Art Director, Dept. of Architecture (1932-)
Academy of Achievement (1991)
Pritzker Prize 1979
Author of books:
The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 (1932, architecture, with Henry-Russell Hitchcock)
Mies van der Rohe (1947)
AKA Philip Cortelyou Johnson
