Will Wright
Will Wright
William, Will or Bill Wright may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGame Designer
Date of Birth20 January 1960
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
blind-spots america today
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
architecture landlord knows
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
book writing four
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
cities doubt world
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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.