Quotes About Organic Architecture

#1. The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#2. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#3. We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#4. For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity ...

Frank Lloyd Wright

#5. I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Alexandre De Betak

#6. The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Alvar Aalto

#7. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. NIKOLA TESLA1

Marc Seifer

#8. There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.

Jeff Lindsay

#9. That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

Ramona Koval

#10. My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

Marco Casagrande

#11. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Stephen King

#12. Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions.

Richard Flanagan

#13. I was off to Yale to be a lesbian

Judith Butler

#14. Believe it or not, Marshal, I believe in talk therapy, basic interpersonal skills. I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him. (87)

Dennis Lehane

#15. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

#16. Your silence is not acceptable.

Donna Tartt

#17. Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

Wu Guanzhong

#18. Admiration was a sentiment unknown to her - first, as always more or less tainted with mediocrity, and next, as being in a way an admission of inferiority. And both were frankly inconceivable to her nature.

Joseph Conrad

#19. a square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].

Catie Marron