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| | Philip Johnson 1906-2005 Art in America - FindArticles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | In 1932, at age 26, well before he ever designed a building, he was the curatorial force behind "Modern Architecture: International Exhibition," which brought to the attention of the American public the European modernist pioneers Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, and effectively made their architecture the gold standard of the day. |
 | | As the first director of the first department of architecture in any major American museum, he went on in 1934 to organize another exhibition of consequence, "Machine Art," in which he convincingly made the claim, virtually without precedent, that common, manufactured, anonymous objects could be not only functional but formally beautiful. |
 | | In catalogue essays for both these events and others of the period, he produced his first writings, which eventually marked him as a significant critic and historian. |
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