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.

Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great...

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

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

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

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...

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...

Less is only more where more is no good.

Less is only more where more is no good.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

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

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

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...

Space is the breath of art.

Space is the breath of art.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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....

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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;...

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...