Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wrightwas an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater, which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth8 June 1867
CityRichland Center, WI
CountryUnited States of America
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
The truth is more important than the facts.