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 two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
Each material has its own message.
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
Prison house for the soul
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy
If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.