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
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
It's a question of disappearing into the background. We would suffer the loss of dilution.
This looks like a really good suburban project dropped into an urban setting.
That project has some challenges, ... The good news is it has some of the only large contiguous spaces downtown.
Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Something bad happened. It doesn't have anything to do with what they were doing.
It was kind of a lackluster game. We did what we needed to do to win.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination