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
It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
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.
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
Each material has its own message.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.