Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Design
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On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.
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I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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