
Legendary architect
Philip Johnson has never swayed far from the public's eye, even though he's been deceased since January 2005. He's back, this time with the news that a group of items from his archive, including his hand-drawn sketches for towers that helped define postmodern
architecture,
are to be sold. They had been held by one of Johnson's former partners, Raj Ahuja, who had them in storage for years. The cache contains more than 25,000
design sketches, working drawings, renderings, and photographs from the second half of Johnson's architectural
career, covering more than 120 projects from 1968-1992. See this
New York Times slideshow for a bit more info.