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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Mechanization best serves mediocrity.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#mediocrity #serves

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.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#belonging #each #ever #happier #hill

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#man #masterpiece #much #needed #none

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#feature #functioning #heart #mind

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


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#everything #land #loose #los #los angeles

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#i #just #out #shake #sleeves

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#beautiful #better #chicago #city #eventually

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#great #greed #money #monument #new

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.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#architecture #civilization #culture #demands #downfall

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


#chewing gum #eyes #gum #television






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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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