Regular tours of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan are sold out again for the 2008 season! However, private and patron tours at $500 and $1,000 a person are still available. Click here.Friday, May 23, 2008
Philip Johnson
Regular tours of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan are sold out again for the 2008 season! However, private and patron tours at $500 and $1,000 a person are still available. Click here.When the famous home of the architect first opened to the public last summer, News 12 Connecticut Photographer Lori Golias and I got a sneak preview. Click here for that blog on the Glass House and a tour of some of Philip Johnson's famous New York City buildings.
However, during my recent trip to Houston, Texas, for Mother's Day, I couldn't get Philip Johnson off my mind. One of the first buildings that caught my eye as we drove towards downtown was Johnson's Republic Bank Center(now Bank of America.) It's across the street from Johnson's Pennzoil Place. Click on pictures to enlarge.
Bank of America 
Pennzoil PlaceJohnson is also known in Houston for the Transco Tower (Now Williams Tower) and Water Wall in the Uptown District.
Transco Tower 
Water Wall
Students in Houston may be familiar with Philip Johnson. He did the campus of St. Thomas, including the Chapel of St. Basil. There is also a Philip Johnson monument at St. Thomas.
St. Thomas
Chapel of St. Basil
He designed the School of Architecture at University of Houston (far left) as well asPost Oak Central I, II, III (right) and One Sugarland Office Park.Philip Johnson made his first mark in Houston with the de Menil house in 1950,the same year he completed the Mrs. John D. Rockefeller House III Guest House on Manhattan's east side and one year after his Glass House.
Ready for another Philip Johnson TEXAS TOUR? Next stop: Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Thanksgiving Square, Dallas (far left)Comerica Bank Tower
Below: Fort Worth Water Gardens and Amon Carter Museum.
I hope you enjoyed your tours. This way, when you visit the Glass House, you'll have a good idea of Johnson's style. What you can do in New Canaan is visit the Glass House visitors center. It's right across from the train station.
In 1972-73, used to walk through the campus of St Thomas for lunch and then back to work.
Heather, you're the best: )
Thank you for this wonderful tour
not to mention it was free!!
So, tell us....whats the guitar that's
sticking up from the roof of the "short" building in the BankAmerica building photo? Sandy is tellin me "bill, there's a guitar cut& pasted into the pic" and I'm snappin back "no way dolly" ...but after a closer look, I see THERE IS a guitar & its REAL!
You've GOTTA fill us in on this one Heather because our curiostiy is drivin us crazy.
Is it a Guitar factory?