Philip Johnson

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (°Cleveland, July 8, 1906 – †New Canaan, January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect, in 1979 he won the first Pritzker Architecture Prize.

He was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Johnson was gay, and has been called “the best-known openly gay architect in America.” In 1961, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1963. He came out publicly in 1993.