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
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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.
It's a question of disappearing into the background. We would suffer the loss of dilution.