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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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.
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often 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. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.
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Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
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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.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
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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.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else.
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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
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Born:
June 8, 1867
Died:
April 9, 1959
(aged 91)
Bio:
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
Known for:
Fallingwater
Taliesin
Robie House
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
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