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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
Architect
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Cleveland
Ohio
Philip Cortelyou 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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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 haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it to make something new of it not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
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