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Date of Birth
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08-June-1867
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Place of Birth
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Richland Center
(Richland County, Wisconsin)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Frank L. Wright, frank_lloyd_wright, Frank Lincoln Wright, Frank Wright
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Profession
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Architect, Artist, Designer, Educator, Writer, Interior designer
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Quotes
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- The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- The truth is more important than the facts.
- All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
- I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
- A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- 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.
- An idea is salvation by imagination.
- 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.
- Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.
- TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
- The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
- I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
- To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
- Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1000 structures and completed 532 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater, which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time."
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