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

Philip Johnson · Architecture

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Philip Johnson

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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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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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

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