The exhibitionist and the voyeur

A speculation on Philip Johnson’s glass house

In 1948 Philip Johnson designed his own residence in Connecticut, and made its exterior walls in 9mm sheets of glass.
He completely denied his own privacy, in the most modernist way, embracing the bourgeois ideal of showcasing  his personal life, his furniture, his meetings with the most influential artists at the time (such as mies van der rohe and andy warhol.)
A couple years later, right in front of it, he designed another building, similar in shape, but Completely Antithetical in material: bricks. 
These two houses symbolize the limits of the modernist ideal, the transparency, once perfection, tidiness and purity, becomes a cage in which Johnson puts his own intimacy.
In this case materials determine the threshold of private and public, analyzed and dissected through the 1:1 wall detail