Will Johnson
Will Johnson
style would-be boring
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.
country nice glasses
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.
culture architecture
The future of architecture is culture.
mistake feelings realizing
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
originals
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
badass bad-ass space
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
funny beach hate
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
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.