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
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Raymond started industrial design and the streamlining movement,
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The sale of the painting is a disservice to artists, to art, to architecture, to the architecture profession and to the public,
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There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.
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From the moment I heard about it, I thought that this was something we really should do. It's a noble purpose, and our students ought to get a chance to travel, get out of Alabama and see some of the rest of the world and the way they live.
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
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It is just blatant aggravation. I've never been treated this way before.
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If we start watering down the patent system... I'm worried about the future of our country. Beware of what you ask for, you might get it.
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The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.
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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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You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
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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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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.
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Architecture is art, nothing else.
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The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.