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 doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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.
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen
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 was kind of a lackluster game. We did what we needed to do to win.
We wanted them to have to shoot over us.
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.
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.
Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.