An Architectural Record Contest - The Philip Johnson Glass House Guessing Game

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An Architectural Record Contest
The Philip Johnson Glass House Guessing Game

In 1974, Philip Johnson’s Glass House was 25 years old. The Architectural League of New York celebrated with a birthday picnic on September 22 of that year, with photos documenting not only the house, but the grounds and other Johnson-designed structures.

In recognition of the recently completed renovation of the Glass House, we unearthed photos from this birthday party and asked you to identify some of the familiar (if younger) faces.

And the winner of the Philip Johnson Glass House contest, which ended Aug. 15, is Jeremy Scott Wood, AIA.

He and Peter Papademetriou both correctly identified seven of the guests in the photos, but Wood submitted his earlier, and won.

He is donating the prize, the book Glass House [italics for Glass House], edited by Toshio Nakamura, photographs by Michael Moran (Monacelli, 2007, $95.00) to the library at the Yale University School of Architecture, in honor of the late Franklin D.Israel.

Photographs are numbered 1 to 8: Click on each one for a larger view.


1. Philip Johnson and other guests on the grounds of his Glass House.	2. James Stewart Polshek (with fork) and his wife, Ellen, talking to Johnson.

3. Johnson and Marita O’Hare (left), Liz Shaw (center), Robert Stern and Lynn Stern.	4. Robert A.M. Stern (to the left of Philip Johnson); Vincent Scully talking to Brendan Gill.

5. (To the right of the Don Judd sculpture, in the rear of the photograph)) Peter Papademetriou, Jeremy Scott Wood, and Paul Goldberger.	6. Jaquelin Robertson.

7. C. Ray Smith (left) and Victoria Newhouse.	8. C. Ray Smith (right) and friends.
All images are © Stan Ries.

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