Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Interpretation
The internal space of a building defines its essence and impact.
Frank Lloyd Wright highlights the importance of the internal space in architecture, suggesting that the way a space feels and functions inside is what ultimately shapes its overall reality and significance. Rather than focusing solely on external aesthetics, true architectural beauty lies in how the space resonates with those who inhabit it.
In practice
In a speech about innovative building design.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.
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