"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
"It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful."
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Source: Philip Johnson (1979). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1979: Presented to Philip Johnson”
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