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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
Architect
Art Historian
Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou Johnson
Phillip Johnson
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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
Philip Johnson
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
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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.
Philip Johnson
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
Philip Johnson
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
Philip Johnson
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
Philip Johnson
Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
Philip Johnson
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
Philip Johnson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
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.
Philip Johnson
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
Philip Johnson
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
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I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.
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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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[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.
Philip Johnson
Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
Philip Johnson
Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
Philip Johnson
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
Philip Johnson
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
Philip Johnson
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.
Philip Johnson
