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
For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity...
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
No stream rises higher than its source
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.