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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) 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. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". His creative period spanned more than 70 years.

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The room within is the great fact about the building.

Building, Fact, Facts, Room, Rooms

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.

Architecture, Record, Records, Today, World, Yesterday

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

Growing Up, Heart, Natural, Opportunity, State, Years

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

Design, Drawing, Eraser, Site, Tools, Two

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

Authority, Becomes, Concerned, Development, Ends

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

Attend, Capital, Church, Churches, Greatest

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Atrophy, Buttons, Keeps, Man, Men, Technology

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Devised, Home, Learn, Should, Snail

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Building, Easily, Grow, Nature, Should, Surroundings

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Architectural, Architecture, Bad Ass, Badass, Human, Valuable

'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.

Artist, Old, Simple, Think, Thinking, Used

The truth is more important than the facts.

Facts, Truth, Wise, Witty

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Funny, Humorous, Land, Loose, Tip

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

America, Beautiful, Make, Making, Stream, Wisdom

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.

America, Away, Blind Spots, Nothing, Today, University

A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

Assumption, Businessman, Differences, Men, Money, Quality

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.

Demands, Imminent, Life, Mean, Meant, Men

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

Beautifier, Building, Light, Seems

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Architect, Architecture, Falling Water, Poet

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.

Day, God, Inspiration, Nature, Principles, Work

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