Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

—Philip Johnson

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About Philip Johnson

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Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) 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...

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

—Elvis Costello

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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

—Arne Jacobsen

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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!

—Steven Wright

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