Frank Lloyd Wright

1867 - 1959

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania

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

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity.

Only when art is indigenous, the work of a particular time, according to the nature and character of the people of that time, is it for all time.

The building as architecture is born out of the heart of man, permanent consort to the ground, comrade to the trees, true reflection of man in the realm of his own spirit. His building is therefore consecrated space wherein he seeks refuge, recreation and repose for body but especially for mind.

Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.

The song, the masterpiece, the edifice are a warm outpouring of the heart of man – human delight in life triumphant: we glimpse the infinite.

Space. The breath of a work of art.

Spirit grows upward from within and outward.

Taliesin West: The desert, with its rim of arid mountains, spotted like the leopard’s skin or tattooed with amazing patterns of creation, is a grand garden the likes of which in sheer beauty of reach, space, and pattern does not exist, I think, anywhere else in the world.

Special thanks go out to Margo Stipe of Taliesin West for her kind and gracious support on this profile.

Recommended Readings:
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography, 1992
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks, 1993

Recommended Resources:
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation