To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.
Glibness will get your anywhere. - Philip Johnson
Glibness will get your anywhere.
- Philip Johnson
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 som… - Philip Johnson
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 som…
The future of architecture is culture. - Philip Johnson
The future of architecture is culture.
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original. - Philip Johnson
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? - Philip Johnson
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper. - Philip Johnson
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
Architecture is art, nothing else. - Philip Johnson
Architecture is art, nothing else.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. - Philip Johnson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. - Philip Johnson
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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