I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Site-Responsive Design, User-Centered Architecture, Design, Architecture, Site, Users
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More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural Landscape, Environmental Harmony, Architecture, Landscape, Environmental, Harmony
Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Landscape, Environmental Harmony, Architecture, Landscape, Environmental, Harmony“Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Design Philosophy, Natural Balance, Design, Balance, Verticality, Philosophy
Frank Lloyd Wright Design Philosophy, Natural Balance, Design, Balance, Verticality, Philosophy“I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Arrogance Vs Modesty, Personal Traits, Arrogance, Modesty, Traits, Personal
Frank Lloyd Wright Arrogance Vs Modesty, Personal Traits, Arrogance, Modesty, Traits, Personal“Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Democracy Definition, Political Systems, Democracy, Systems, Political, Liberty
Frank Lloyd Wright Democracy Definition, Political Systems, Democracy, Systems, Political, Liberty“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural Equality, Building Value, Architecture, Equality, Value, Building
Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Equality, Building Value, Architecture, Equality, Value, Building“The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!” Frank Lloyd Wright
Artistic Machine, Human Expression, Machine, Expression, Art, Human
Frank Lloyd Wright Artistic Machine, Human Expression, Machine, Expression, Art, Human“Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Expectations, Prophetic Reality, Expectations, Reality, Prophecy, Life
Frank Lloyd Wright Life Expectations, Prophetic Reality, Expectations, Reality, Prophecy, Life“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Technology Critique, Human Nature, Technology, Critique, Nature, Human
Frank Lloyd Wright Technology Critique, Human Nature, Technology, Critique, Nature, Human“Architecture is man’s great sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art is great life.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural Identity, Art And Life, Architecture, Art, Identity, Life
Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Identity, Art And Life, Architecture, Art, Identity, Life“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.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Life Critique, City Sounds, City, Critique, Sounds, Urban
Frank Lloyd Wright Urban Life Critique, City Sounds, City, Critique, Sounds, Urban“Freedom is from within.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Inner Freedom, Personal Liberty, Freedom, Liberty, Personal, Inner
Frank Lloyd Wright Inner Freedom, Personal Liberty, Freedom, Liberty, Personal, Inner“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Human-Centered Design, Architectural Values, Architecture, Design, Human, Values
Frank Lloyd Wright Human-Centered Design, Architectural Values, Architecture, Design, Human, Values“We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures – our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Learning From Failure, Personal Growth, Failure, Growth, Learning, Success
Frank Lloyd Wright Learning From Failure, Personal Growth, Failure, Growth, Learning, Success“All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural Humor, Professional Critique, Architecture, Humor, Critique, Profession
Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Humor, Professional Critique, Architecture, Humor, Critique, Profession“I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural Intimacy, Personal Design, Architecture, Design, Intimacy, Personal
Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Intimacy, Personal Design, Architecture, Design, Intimacy, Personal“The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Vs Science, Creative Solution, Art, Science, Poet, Solution
Frank Lloyd Wright Art Vs Science, Creative Solution, Art, Science, Poet, Solution“It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Great Architecture, Building Greatness, Architecture, Building, Greatness, Qualities
Frank Lloyd Wright Great Architecture, Building Greatness, Architecture, Building, Greatness, Qualities“If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Beauty And Awareness, Aesthetic Value, Beauty, Awareness, Aesthetic, Value
Frank Lloyd Wright Beauty And Awareness, Aesthetic Value, Beauty, Awareness, Aesthetic, Value“Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom And Equality, Self-Expression, Equality, Freedom, Self-Expression, Power
Frank Lloyd Wright Freedom And Equality, Self-Expression, Equality, Freedom, Self-Expression, Power