Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes about Design

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

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

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

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

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 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