what a privilege to be in the presence of this man! He comes across as a humble person, able to talk honestly about his life and designs.

what an amazing interview. johnson was so pompous, it's breathtaking. smooth talker.

Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this interview. Thank you!

thanks for whoever put this in youtube. its very interesting to hear him spoke about mies..

Great interview Philip.

He never had an architectural idea, just followed the day's fashion.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

I'm crazily in love with his Pittsburgh PPG Place!!!!! Philip Johnson is one of the best of the best men to have ever lived.

Does anyone else love that this man studied Philosophy and English as an Undergraduate? I grew up with someone, someone I don't particularly like, though do respect his talent and his intelligence - people may recall the New Yorker Magazine piece on Eric Owen Moss: His Patron states that upon arriving at Moss's Office to find him reading the collected poetry of Eliot cemented his choice of Moss. A catalog of knowledge is perhaps the most invaluable thing around.

I think he is great

The AT&T building discussed here was completed in 1984. Now called the Sony building. Located in Manhattan at 550 Madison Avenue.

This deserves full transcription and publication!

This man makes me want to be an architect sooo bad. It's too bad college keeps fucking me up the ass and is preventing me from following that dream.

This is great.

I'm in love with this man he's the legend of architecture his works are all amazing omg

askmum; off course it is!!!!!!, human need is the foundation of every design, research, investigation, etc. off all ages in history. you're not writing contradictory statements, you're actually exposing remarkable ideas.

^_^my dream being an architect is coming true though I wished I could go to the us and study there but that didn't happened :( my curses will start in a month I'm very excited .my greetings from Iraq

"I can't draw" That makes me so happy. I want to be an architect but still my drawing is the worst among other classmates

1982.

If anyone can point me to a university that actually teaches architecture now I would go. Even at my age. So far, I cannot find one.

Sad. Petulant attitude to critics & public really comes through. To say that making a good interior and interior is some kind of lofty aspiration is tantamount to admission of failure on behalf of the whole modernist establishment.

He made a few good buildings and many that were not so good. I don't think that he made any singularly great buildings like Mies or Le Corbusier or Eero Saarinen. Some of Johnson's most prominent buildings are pictured here on Wikipedia (it's OK to Leave KZfaq page) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson

Go to SCIarc they are like the Bauhaus of California

how can they talk like this in such a stupendously drab set

So classical architects are just a snarky as classical musicians. No boby ever wins but they feel better;..who did go to school. , at lease don't tell young people to not go to school. They need to fix the right situation Not every one can be self-taught.

foul fickle fake floozy

Here come the cops at 16:12.

He's wrong! Zaha hadid has had relevance.

39... pompous... fraud?...

meh, a fervent ex-nazi pseudo-modernist born again post-modernist who's best building was his first building which was practically a copy of Mies' Farnsworth House. Only a tad overrated.

A profoundly overrated architect. Did do some wonderful modern houses, entirely out of sight, in Manhattan.