Philip Johnson, the innovative architect whose collaboration with local Houston real estate developer Gerald Hines defined Houston’s modern skyline, died Tuesday at the age of 98 in New Canaan, Conn. Mr. Johnson designed many buildings in Houston, including Pennzoil Place, Bank of America Center, Williams Tower, the Gerald Hines College of Architecture Building at the University of Houston, and the Rothko Chapel on the campus of the University of St. Thomas in the Montrose area of Houston, which was discussed in this earlier post.
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RE: the UH Architecture Building, that link is very interesting (and generous). The controversy as I recall wasn’t so much that he “copied” the design, but that he didn’t admit it until some Rice U students discovered that he had copied the design and pointed it out.
Ah well. 🙂
Or, as one sage observer of the local scene commented at the time, “Johnson must not have gotten his usual fee on that one.” ;^)