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.
If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things about me but the fact is that even through all that we love each other. We love each other in spite of our flaws and despite all the things we do that should make us hate each other we still continue to fall deeper in love. Sometimes we want to hate each other but for two people who are truly in love it simply isn't possible. Not even a little but, not even at all.
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see...
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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!