I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No,… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson Copy Share
Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years… — Philip Johnson Copy Share
