Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood

• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Hammers, Use

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  People, Design, Building

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Simplicity, Design, Comfort

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Hands, Design

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.10, Courier Corporation

• The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Drawing, Design

• On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Children, Block, Creativity

• 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

  Simple, Office, Design

• We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Design, Execution

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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