Only Mies influenced me. Le Corbusier I met. He was a nasty man, but obviously a genius. You don’t have to like the people just because they’re geniuses. Mies and I got along better and we became pretty close. I worked with him on his greatest building here, the Seagram building, which was kind of fun, but again, you can’t be a hero-worshipper and be an uncommon architect; you’ve got to be your own man. So I split with Mies and did a different kind of work.
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Philip Johnson
Architect; first winner of the Pritzker Prize
United States · 1906–2005
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Architect and critic who founded the department of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, built the Glass House in New Canaan, and designed the Seagram Building with Mies van der Rohe. First recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979.
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