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
blatant treated
It is just blatant aggravation. I've never been treated this way before.
architecture disservice painting profession sale
The sale of the painting is a disservice to artists, to art, to architecture, to the architecture profession and to the public,
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.
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.
pride people corporations
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.
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.
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.
anything-goes delight form
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
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.
scary process materials
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life