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Philip Johnson
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Philip Johnson

architect, art historian, architectural historian

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1906  – 2005

Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City, designed for AT&T; 190 South La Salle Street in Chicago; IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis; the Sculpture Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art; and the Pre-Columbian Pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. His January 2005 obituary in The New York Times described his works as being "widely considered among the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century".

All Quotes by Philip Johnson

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
— Philip Johnson
“Architecture is art, nothing else.”
— Philip Johnson
“I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.”
— Philip Johnson
“I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.”
— Philip Johnson
“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.”
— Philip Johnson
“The future of architecture is culture.”
— Philip Johnson
“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.”
— Philip Johnson
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
— Philip Johnson
“Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.”
— Philip Johnson
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
— Philip Johnson
“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.”
— Philip Johnson