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
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.