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
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
Prison house for the soul
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.