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
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
It was kind of a lackluster game. We did what we needed to do to win.
That project has some challenges, ... The good news is it has some of the only large contiguous spaces downtown.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.
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.
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.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.