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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: important, care, live, people

Other Quotes by "Philip Johnson"

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
— Philip Johnson
Tags: buildings, beach, hate, you
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
Tags: feel, go, architecture, you
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
Tags: space, design, architecture, great
The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: small, being, mouth, consistency
I'm about four skyscrapers behind.
— Philip Johnson
Tags: four, about, behind
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