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
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.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
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.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.
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.
Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
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.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.