All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. (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.

Philip Johnson

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