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Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson
Age: 98 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 8
Died: 2005
Died: January 25
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Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
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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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I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
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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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The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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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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Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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