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Philip Johnson was a 20th-century American architect. Philip Cortelyou Johnson 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 in Chicago; IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis; the Sculpture Garden of New York City's Museum of Modern Art; and the Pre-Columbian Pavilion at Dumbarton Oaks. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.”
— Philip Johnson
Art Architecture Design

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

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
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Art Architecture Waste

“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”
— Philip Johnson
Live Want Beyond

“There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.”
— Philip Johnson
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“Architecture is art, nothing else.”
— Philip Johnson
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