Frank Lloyd Wright [ Wikipedia ] was 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.
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th century, a radical designer and intellectual who embraced new technologies, his works includes Fallingwater, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Johnson Wax Headquarters, Taliesin, Taliesin West, Robie House, Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Darwin D. Martin House, Unity Temple, Ennis House, Larkin Administration Building, Affleck House, Dana-Thomas House, Coonley House, Marin County Civic Center, First Unitarian Society of Madison, Price Tower, Westcott House, Monona Terrace, Meyer May House, Allen House, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church and Graycliff
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Space is the breath of art.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Buildings, too are children of Earth and Sun.
Less is only more where more is no good.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
The architect must be a prophet… a prophet in the true sense of the term… if he can’t see at least ten years ahead don’t call him an architect.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
‘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.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
