An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined...

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of...

Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of...

Space is the breath of art.

Space is the breath of art.

The truth is more important than the facts.

The truth is more important than the facts.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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....

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of...

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of...

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a...

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a...

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies...

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies...

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....

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look...

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look...

We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We...

We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We...

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies;...

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies;...

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term......

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term......

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great,...

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great,...