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Frank Lloyd Wright

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...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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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.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Less is only more where more is no good.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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known as Lloyd Wright was also a notable architect in Los Angeles. Although neither of the affordable house plans were ever constructed Wright received increased requests for similar designs in following years. In 1909 even before the Robie House was completed Wright and Mamah Cheney went together to Europe leaving their own spouses and children behind.

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. 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 (1935) which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".

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