Frank Lloyd Wright föddes den June 8th1867 och dog den 9 April 1959 - the most abundantly creative genius of American architecture. His Prairie style became the basis of 20th century residential design in the United States. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart. Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind. Determination is the greatest virtue of the will. Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture
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. (1939)
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.