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
want
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
positive thank-god world
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.
house skyscraper harder
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
glasses house saving
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
mold riches twists
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
wall talking body
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
death want architecture
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
bother happens
Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.
objects picks
Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
cities architecture automobile
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
water use things-to-do
The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
years people house
Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.
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.