Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd
Frank William George Lloydwas an American film director, scriptwriter and producer. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934-35...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 February 1886
architecture fine human values
All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
busy march weekend
The first weekend in March is usually the end of our busy season. But this year, with the way things are going, it may keep up a little longer.
california southern slides
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
boys smoking mind
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
life men artist
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
farewell artist house
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
blind-spots america today
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
architecture landlord knows
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
book writing four
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
cities doubt world
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
why-not centralization ifs
If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
artist civilization memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
mistake ivy doctors
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy
beautiful thinking challenges
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.