"Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary."

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Philip Johnson

Architect

Philip Johnson was a pioneering architect known for his role in modernism and his iconic work, the Glass House, which redefined architectural transparency.

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