John Burgee (born 1933) is an American architect known for his contributions to postmodern architecture as Philip Johnson's partner from 1967 to 1991, in the firm Johnson/Burgee Architects. A 1956 graduate of the University of Notre Dame's architecture school, he eased Johnson out of the firm in 1991; it went bankrupt soon after, which in effect ended his design career.
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The IDS Center in Minneapolis (1972) centres on the Crystal Court, a seven-storey covered space linked by skyways to four blocks. Pennzoil Place in Houston (1975) was one of their landmark towers. PPG Place in Pittsburgh (1984) wraps a neo-Gothic office complex in 19,750 pieces of glass for a glass company, and the AT&T Building (550 Madison Avenue) in New York (1984) became a symbol of postmodernism. The firm moved into its own almost elliptical Lipstick Building in New York (1986). In Madrid, the twin towers of the Gate of Europe (1996) lean towards each other at 15 degrees, the first inclined skyscrapers in the world. John Burgee's buildings are studied for corporate postmodernism and its historical references.
IDS Center1972 · Minneapolis
AT&T Building (550 Madison Avenue)1984 · New York
Lipstick Building1986 · New York City
Fort Worth Water Gardens1974 · Fort Worth
Pennzoil Place1975 · Houston
PPG Place1984 · Pittsburgh
Gate of Europe1996 · Madrid