Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnsonwas an influential American architect. He is especially known for his postmodern work from the 1980s and beyond, as well as his collaborations with John Burgee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth8 July 1906
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
art badass bad-ass
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
water use things-to-do
The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
objects picks
Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
tradition
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
moving men space
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.
looks thrill earth
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
cities people challenges
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.
anything-goes delight form
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
thinking people made
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.
school growth responsible
American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.
scary facts common
From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.
scary intellectual doctrine
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.
mean scary materialism
Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.
scary process materials
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life