Quotes by Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson

[Evolution] doesn’t mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn’t say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

Evolution

Mean

Scary

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Architecture

Death

Want

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Bad Ass

Badass

Space

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

Growth

Responsible

School

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does?

Doors

Moving

Tears

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we’ve both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

Class

Want

Way

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Architecture

Art

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Art

Design

Space

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Art

Badass

Funny

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.

Rooms

Talking

Wall

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Anything Goes

Architect

Architecture

Arrogant

Art

Automobile

Bad Ass

Badass

Beach

Beautiful

Bed

Believe

Boring

Bother

Building

Cathedrals

Challenges

Chameleon

Children

Cities

Class

Common

Consistency

Corporations

Country

Culture

Death

Delight

Design

Desire

Doctrine

Doe

Doors

Evolution

Facts

Feelings

Form

Frank

Fun

Funny

Gadflies

Generations

Giving

Glasses

Growth

Happens

Harder

Hate

Havens

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Quotes by Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson

[Evolution] doesn’t mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn’t say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does?

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we’ve both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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