Building Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The room within is the great fact about the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather…

— Frank Lloyd Wright