Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. — 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
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
I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Image
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
