"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
"To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own."
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Source: Philip Johnson (1979). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1979: Presented to Philip Johnson”
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