I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

Quote by Philip Johnson

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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,...

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.

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...

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...

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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...

An architect is the drawer of dreams

An architect is the drawer of dreams

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...

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...

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...

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

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

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

Architecture is the work of nations

Architecture is the work of nations

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Architecture aims at Eternity.