John Burgee

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John Burgee is an American architect important in post-modern architecture. 1956 graduate of University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Burgee's honors also include the Reynolds Prize in Architecture. Burgee served on the Notre Dame University's Board of Trustees from 1988 until April when he was named trustee emeritus. He also has served on the School of Architecture's Advisory Council since 1982. In 2004, he received the Orlando T. Maione Award for distinguished contributions to the School of Architecture ^[1]

[edit] Johnson/Burgee Architects

In 1968, Burgee and the late architect Philip Johnson established Johnson/Burgee Architects in Manhattan.

Their collaborations include:

AEGON Center, Louisville, Kentucky
AT&T Building, New York
Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California
Fort Worth Water Gardens
One Atlantic Center (IBM Building), Atlanta, Georgia
IDS Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lipstick Building, New York, New York
Pennzoil Place Houston, Texas
PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Puerta de Europa, Madrid, Spain
Transco Tower (now Williams Tower), Houston, Texas
Tycon Center, Fairfax County, Virginia
500 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts

"Johnson-Burgee firm moved in 1986 into the elliptical skyscraper at 885 Third Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets. Popularly known as the Lipstick Building, it had been designed by the partners together. But the partnership was not to last long beyond the move: Mr. Burgee, eager to occupy center stage, negotiated a more limited role for Mr. Johnson and in 1991 exercised the prerogative he had as the firm's chief executive and eased Mr. Johnson out altogether."^[2]

"It proved an unwise decision: the firm, crippled by an arbitration."^[3]