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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.
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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I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.
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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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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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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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Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
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I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
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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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American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
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The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
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The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
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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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We do pretty much whatever we want to.
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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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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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