Philip Cortelyou Johnson, born on July 8, 1906, was a seminal American architect whose work has been characterized as modern and postmodern. After working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the early 1930s, Johnson stepped into journalism in 1936 working for a populist and anti-Semitic publication. His Nazi sympathies did not last for long, however, for he enlisted in the military in 1941, just as the United States began its campaign against the Axis. Around this time, Johnson enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Design and designed his first building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He went on to work on some of the most iconic modern and postmodern projects including, the Glass House, the Seagram Building, the Lipstick Building, the Crystal Cathedral, and 550 Madison Avenue. Johnson was also recognized as the most prominent homosexual architect in the United States. Though he only came out as gay publicly in 1993, he had his first homosexual relationship back in 1934. At age 98, Philip Johnson died on January 25, 2005, and his longtime partner, David Whitney, died just months later.