Philip Johnson s first building renamed amid protest over architect s white supremacist views
US architecture and design school Harvard GSD has removed Philip Johnson s name from a house he built while studying at the institution in response to a campaign calling for a rethink of the Nazi-supporting late architect s legacy.
Harvard Graduate School of Design announced this week it has renamed the house Johnson designed and built in the 1940s as his GSD thesis project.
Formerly known as Philip Johnson Thesis House, the single-storey dwelling is now named after its address, 9 Ash Street.
Philip Johnson is an inappropriate namesake
The move is a response to a campaign by activist organisation The Johnson Study Group that has also called on New York s Museum of Modern Art to remove Johnson s name from a curatorial post in light of the architect s commitment to white supremacy .