Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Quote by Philip Johnson

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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

Architecture is the work of nations

Architecture is the work of nations

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

An architect is the drawer of dreams

An architect is the drawer of dreams

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but...

Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but...

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more...

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music