"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?" ― Philip Johnson Topic(s): Architecture More From Philip Johnson "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space." "All architects want to live beyond their deaths." "Architecture is the art of how to waste space." More In Architecture "My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone."― Julia Morgan "What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?"― Bernard Levin "If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."― Tadao Ando