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.

Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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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....

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your...

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your...

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...

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Space is the breath of art.

Space is the breath of art.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Less is only more where more is no good.

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......

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about...

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture...

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express...

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express...

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from...

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from...

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

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

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of...

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of...

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...