Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect | movie | 1997 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00To me, architecture is mostly a question of procession.

00:15In other words, you've got to enter a group of buildings

00:18through a gateway, which we're now at,

00:21and as you come in, you explore the whole terrace here

00:25and the house sitting in the middle of it.

00:28That was the glass house period when I did everything like Mies van der Rohe,

00:33strict lines like this, and then inside, which you'll see in a minute,

00:37we went on and loosened up.

00:45With a perfectly symmetrical doorway, you enter into what I call

00:49the entrance vestibule.

00:54Then you step a few steps, the imaginary wall, and as you turn, the world changes

01:01because your point of vision goes round and round.

01:04It's much like a dog sniffing his way into a room,

01:07always goes round the outside and settles around and around

01:11and curls at last in somewhat of a middle or somewhere near the middle of the room,

01:16and curls up and goes to sleep.

01:20The whole house is anchored to that cylinder,

01:23which pulls everything together from all parts of the house.

01:28It's the hearth, but if your back is warm, you'll be very happy,

01:32and that is the thing that makes the house a house.

01:35The kitchen is one of the simpler objects in the house.

01:48We didn't try any tricks with the kitchen.

01:50The kitchen just is.

01:52It is.

01:53I bought in Kitchen GE, Kitchen GE iceboxes,

01:57four-year-old iceboxes, practically antiques now.

02:03Then over here, the back way, so to speak,

02:07into the dining room, the seat of honor is this one,

02:12which, of course, I always sit in.

02:14From here, I have my coffee,

02:16and I look at the view on all one, two, three, four sides,

02:21and so you can find where you orient yourself in the landscape,

02:26and you look, of course, to the north.

02:30Now, the north view is very important.

02:33The north view is where you get the overlapping

02:37of the elements that compose the building,

02:39all overlapping and joining each other

02:42like a painting composition.

02:45And above that is, again, the landscape.

02:48So you're always surrounded by this beautiful wallpaper.

02:51It's rather expensive wallpaper,

02:53but it's very pretty, especially at this time of year.

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