More from Frank Lloyd Wright

  1. 'Form follows function' - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
  2. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will, in time, enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
  3. Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
  4. Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
  5. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939)
  6. Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
  7. Don't eat it. It will kill you before your time. Avoid it.
  8. He exposes all the function on the top and puts the form below. It's as if you were to wear your entrails on top of your head.

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