Occupation: Architect Birth: June 8, 1867 Death: April 9, 1959
Each material has its own message..
An idea is salvation by imagination..
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization..
If it sells, it's art..
Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit..
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest..
Space is the breath of art..
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use..
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you..
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoveri….
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen..
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be..
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us..
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there..
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union..
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having..
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site..
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built..
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for….
Less is only more where more is no good..