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Frank Lloyd Wright

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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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The space within becomes the reality of the building.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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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.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.


— Frank Lloyd Wright


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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.


— 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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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.


— 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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