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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.
Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
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Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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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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So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
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Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.
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I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.
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[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.
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The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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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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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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