essay part two(steph)

When Johnson was younger and in school he explained that he was a great student except when it came to certain things like writing. He had difficulties with writing and it developed into a disease. So he flunked in writing most of his life. He went to high school in Tarrytown, New York. After that he studied at Harvard as an undergraduate because he had started at Harvard when he was 17. While he was at Harvard he focused on history and philosophy. His education was interrupted with extended trips to Europe. He visited Chartres and the Parthenon and after those visits he became very into architecture. In 1940 he continued his education in a design school in Harvard. Some of his early works include the Glass House and the Seagram building. His architectural style was International but the glass house on the other hand was more of a modern style.
He was struggling with his sexuality his whole life. You can see it in most of his artwork. Johnson’s first feeling was to be ashamed of himself being gay because of the way he was brought up with his parents, so he just hid it.
Throughout the 1950’s and 60’s Johnson delighted some and outraged others with sleek modern designs like those of his Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, the Seagram building in New York, and the crystal cathedral in Garden Grove California.
The Glass House was built in 1949. The system they used was steel frame inside and glass on the outside. Johnson’s glass house was his best achievement. People from everywhere went to see it. It was completed in 1949. He was inspired by the plans of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth house in Illinois. "He designed a small, boxy house, also highly influenced by Mies, for a client in Sagaponack, Long Island, in 1946, but his first significant building, and still perhaps his most famous, was not for another client at all but, like the Cambridge house, for his own use: it was the Glass House in New Canaan, completed in 1949 with its counterpoint, a brick guest house.”
"The serene Glass House, a 56-foot-by-32-foot rectangle, is generally considered one of the 20th century's greatest residential structures. Like all of Mr. Johnson's early work, it was inspired by Mies, but its pure symmetry, dark colors