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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
Architect
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Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
Phillip Johnson
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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.
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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.
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Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
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Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
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In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.
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There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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