New Forms Taschen 187

the work of Hermann Finsterlin. Deborah Dietsch brings these Johnson references up to datę by writing about this pavilion, "It is inspired by the computer-generated forms of Frank O. Gehry and Peter Eisenman, German Expressionism, and the sculp-tural collages of Frank Stella. Clearly evident, too, is a link to the colorful dynamism of Zaha Hadid, whose drawings were shown in 'Deconstructivist Architeaure,' which Johnson curated in 1988 at the Museum of Modern Art.'³¹ Changing styles frequently throughout his career, announcing the arrival of Post-Modernism for ex-ample with his AT&T Tower in New York, Philip Johnson has been morę than a barometer of changes in fashion. As a mentor of architects like Michael Graves, or morę recently Erie Owen Moss, he has exerted a elear and present influence on the course of American architeaure. The building as an inhabited sculpture, a func-tional work of art, here reaches a viable presence that will be felt in architeaure for a number of years to come.

Like a country onto itself, California has bred many internal Solutions to the problems confronting contemporary architeaure. Some of these can be seen through the work of younger architeas like Wes Jones, Erie Owen Moss or Josh

198 Outlook