Who is Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." As a founder of organic architecture, Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing three generations of architects worldwide through his works.Wright was the pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture, and he also developed the concept of the Usonian home...
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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.
- A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
- The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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