Wednesday, February 17, 2016

What's the idea?

When Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect, was asked if the New York skyline excited him, he answered: 'It does not. Because it was never planned, it is all a race for rent, and it is a great monument, I think, to the power of money and greed trying to substitute money for ideas. I don't see an idea in the whole thing anywhere. Do you? Where's the idea in it? What's the idea?' From Mike Wallace interview with Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957. Wright (1867-1959) believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.