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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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...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

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 Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Space is the breath of art.

Space is the breath of art.

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 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...

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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...

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing...

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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...

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...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...