. >> rose: what was your relationship to phillip johnson? >> i loved him, personally. i never got into the german stuff. i once did. >> rose: yeah, i did, too. (laughter) >> you couldn't not at some point become engaged in that. >> rose: basically there was a fascination with the nazi period. >> well, he was fascinated by the power. i think he was actually attracted physically to the handsome german youth, and the allure of all that kind of blinded him to what was going on politically. i think over the years he sufficiently repented in public for that so it was not fair to hold it against him. >> rose: here is phillip johnson talking about you on this program. do you have any sense of where it's going now? where are we? >> actually, i have. right in the middle of it. and to me, frank gehry is probably the best direction. i'm very proud to find somebody like frank gehry sitting there playing with chain link fences and doing his own house, and i realized there was something i couldn't define. i couldn't say, gee, i get this direction, that's interesting. i felt baffled.