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
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials...