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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
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Philip Cortelyou Johnson
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Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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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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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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Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.
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Glibness will get your anywhere.
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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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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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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 basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?
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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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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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