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
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.
Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
We're a nice team when all of us are moving.
Just 15 years ago it was farms and trees. Now we have the Family Circle Cup tennis match there with Venus and Serena Williams playing.
Meg McMullen had a really big second half for us. We need to have people step up like that and not have to rely on Katie and Lauren to carry the load every game. We're coming to that point in the season where we need to develop some other options.
We realize people need to live somewhere but we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we have 28 houses per acre.
We didn't do a very good job in the first half. We were very lax on defense and didn't play with a whole lot of intensity. I thought we came back and did an excellent job in the second half. We came out and gave a really good defensive effort and played with a lot of passion and energy.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
We've been having some weekend public skates with anywhere from 300 to 400 skaters per session. It's pretty crowded.
It was kind of a lackluster game. We did what we needed to do to win.
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.