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 room within is the great fact about the building.
Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
Imitate nothing except principle.
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see...
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.