‘Architectural values are human values or they are not valuable’
(Frank Lloyd Wright, 1932)
Source: aungkyawthein
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright (via kingchimera)
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
found in The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
(via dilettantes-bookshelf)Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright (via archi-torture-daily)
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (via grandelephante)
The mother art is architecture.Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright (via flowless-flewless-flawless)
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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Freshome: 10 Great Architectural Lessons from Frank Lloyd Wright
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)
Even a brick wants to be something.
Louis Khan (via thatstainspermanent)
I prefer to have my architecture framed by nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright, as quoted by George Biddle in his diary (p. 95). This was FLW’s reasoning for tearing down a silo which he could see from his window at Taliesin. Biddle goes on to describe Wright as “fatherly, warm, coquettish, vain, and very slippery” but also “unquestionably a genius.” (via archivesofamericanart)
Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright (via dreamcatcher235)
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