Philip Johnson

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“Lack of leadership and direction in the state has let the one group get control who always gain power in a nation's time of weakness—the Jews.”
— Social Justice (late 1930s), as cited in Nikil Saval "Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral", The New Yorker (December 12, 2018)
“[T]he German green uniforms made the place look gay and happy. There were not many Jews to be seen. We saw Warsaw burn and Modlin being bombed. It was a stirring spectacle.”
— From a letter to an American woman (1939) later convicted of being a German agent, as cited in Martin Filler "Prince of the City", The New York Review of Books (December 22, 1994)
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
— (27 December 1964), p. 9
“I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.”
— Financial Times (June 3, 1989)
“[T]he anti-Semitism, I was in on, and that's the part I'm really ashamed of.”
— The Charlie Rose Show (June 25, 1993), as cited in Martin Filler "Prince of the City", The New York Review of Books (December 22, 1994)

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