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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.