NEW YORK, NY.- Out of the depths of a privately owned and previously unknown archive of drawings by the influential and always controversial postmodern architect Philip Johnson (1906-2005), The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London has acquired a drawing of the Madison Avenue façade of the famed AT&T skyscraper in New York City (now Sony Plaza). The UK ’s national museum of art and design, the V&A acquired the 7½-foot-tall, hand-drawn drawing of “the building with the Chippendale top” through Chicago ’s Wright auction house this past April for $70,000. “This is one of the most important architectural works on paper of the second half of the 20th-century, which can now play a significant part in the V&A’s forthcoming exhibition on Postmodernism,” said Glenn Adamson, Head of Graduate Studies in the Victoria and Albert’s Research Department. The drawing will appear publicly for the first