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
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
It helped us that they could both get to the rim, they were not one-dimensional at all. They also had to develop better court awareness to distribute the ball. We will really miss Katie next year at the top of our zone. She played so long, she really changed the other team's passing angles.
Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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.
Just 15 years ago it was farms and trees. Now we have the Family Circle Cup tennis match there with Venus and Serena Williams playing.
We wanted them to have to shoot over us.
We realize people need to live somewhere but we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we have 28 houses per acre.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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...
No stream rises higher than its source
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.