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A Conversation with John Burgee: The Architecture of Johnson/Burgee is a documentary exploring the life and work of American architect John Burgee. Burgee, one of the founders of the influential firm Johnson/Burgee Architects, is best known for his contributions to iconic postmodernist buildings such as 550 Madison Avenue (well-known as the AT&T Building) and the Lipstick Building—yet his roots in, and relationship to, classicism played a meaningful role in his development as an architect.
In 1966, as a fledgling architect in my first year back in New York from school in New Haven, I reviled Mott Schmidt's Susan Wagner Wing at Gracie Mansion.
The Four Seasons restaurant is a rare bird. While more than 31,000 buildings in New York City have been extended protection by the Landmarks Preservation Commission by virtue of their location in a historic district, and more than 1,300 buildings have been declared individual landmarks, only 117 interiors have been recognized as being worthy of the same treatment.
Architect Robert A.M. Stern effectively summarized his approach to contemporary buildings with the following quote he provided to the Louisiana Channel: "Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga." Which is to say they should not have the building equivalent of beetle wings or haloes or pyrotechnic bras. They should not be born that way.
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