The show and their simultaneously published book "International Style: Modern Architecture Since 1922" was profoundly influential and is seen as the introduction of modern architecture to the American public. and Henry-Russell Hitchcock to examine firsthand recent trends in architecture, the three assembled their discoveries as the landmark show "Modern Architecure: International Exhibition" in the Heckscher Building for the Museum of Modern Art, in 1932. Touring Europe more comprehensively with his friends Alfred H. Johnson returned from Germany as a proselytizer for the new architecture. The meeting was a revelation for Johnson and formed the basis for a lifelong relationship of both collaboration and competition. In 1928 Johnson met with architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was at the time designing the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. These trips became the pivotal moment of his education he visited Chartres, the Parthenon, and many other ancient monuments, becoming increasingly fascinated with architecture. Johnson interrupted his education with several extended trips to Europe. He attended the Hackley School, in Tarrytown, New York, and then studied at Harvard University as an undergraduate, where he focused on history and philosophy, particularly the work of the Pre-Socratic philosophers. He was descended from the Jansen family of New Amsterdam, and included among his ancestors the Huguenot Jacques Cortelyou, who laid out the first town plan of New Amsterdam for Peter Stuyvesant. Philip Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
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