Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson

  • Born: 1906-7-8
  • Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Ahmad 2022-12-01 05:24:28

      A Nomad at Heart

      I was alienating it for a while, as if it wasn't worthy of my love. I've always been this way about design. Yet as I moved further and further away from it, Kang changed me and gave me revelation.
      The design attitude itself is still the love of life and the thinking about life.
      He brought tears to...

    • Brennan 2022-12-01 06:24:07

      Architecture, for the soul that has nowhere to place

      The film is shot 23 years after Kahn's death, visiting Kahn's contemporary architects, trying to piece together a complete father from their memories, at the beginning, he said "I don't have much time".

      It's true that when you look at Frank O Gehry, Philip Johnson, IM Pei, one after another, the...

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    My Architect quotes

    • Louis Kahn: How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

    • Louis Kahn: A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once. And you look for it, and though you know it you must hear it again. Though you know it you must see it again. Truly, a work of art is one that tells us that Nature cannot make what man can make.