Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd
Frank William George Lloydwas an American film director, scriptwriter and producer. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934-35...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 February 1886
why-not centralization ifs
If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
artist civilization memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
mistake ivy doctors
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy
beautiful thinking challenges
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
ideas disrespect authority
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
bridges arches hills
I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches
modern-life architecture modern
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
children block creativity
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.
life mean men
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.
two drawing design
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
thinking architecture architect
I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.
make-out expenses accounts
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
mind gum television
Television is bubble-gum for the mind
men tree earth
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.