Philip Johnson is unarguably the most influential and best-known American architect working at the close of this century
Frank D. Welch, FAIA, is principal of the award-winning architectural firm Frank Welch and Associates of Dallas.
"Texas is my favorite country. In Texas there is more interest in carrying out the American dream than anywhere else in the United States-and this leads to wonderful things for architecture." -from the foreword by Philip Johnson "... in the long saga of Johnson's career, the great proving ground for his investigation of styles and his maturation as an architect turns out to be not only New York, but Texas. Frank D. Welch conclusively shows, in Philip Johnson and Texas, that the arrival of commissions from a wealthy oligarchy of Texas clients launched Johnson's career on a national scale... For any future historical analyses of of Johnson's career, Welch's accounts of client-architect relations will provide valuable information about the players in Johnson's major commissions. By dwelling on personal interaction and providing biography where none existed, Welch also fills in aspects of the evolving cultural history, and reception of modern art and architecture, in Houston and Dallas, as its leading citizens moved from conservatism to become proponents and supporters of modernism."--Times Literary Supplement, April 27 2001
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