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
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.
Less is more only when more is too much.
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.