working with john burgee johnson did not confine himself to a single style and was comfortable mixing elements of modernism and postmodernism for the cleveland play house he built a romanesque brick structure for the architecture school at the university of houston he said that his model was the french neoclassical architecture of the th-century architect french claude-nicolas ledoux his skyscrapers on the s were skillfully constructed and clad in granite and marble and usually had some feature borrowed from historic architecture in new york he designed the museum of television and radio now the paley center for media 