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Frank Lloyd Wright Remembered
Excerpts from Frank Lloyd Wright Remembered:
"No one understands the third dimension as well as he, the capacity of architecture to be an experience in depth, rather than a mere façade."
—Philip Johnson, FAIA
"In public, he had a histrionic sense. When he got on the stage, he really enjoyed tremendously playing a part, and he enjoyed tremendously shocking people....But when you were alone with [him], in his own chambers, he became not only modest but really a very humble child. He was a very beautiful human being as I knew him."
—R. Buckminster Fuller
"...my friends [told me] I was a little giddy to think about approaching the great, expensive, and imperious Frank Lloyd Wright.... I decided that no matter how busy or important, the master would listen to someone who wanted one of his works so much. In due time, a letter was dispatched telling him how important was a house by him, along with a map of the site, contours and trees—some of the specifics a client would give his architect, all of it making an excess-postage envelope. It is very likely that no normally sensitive ego would have been unmoved by such a panegyric."
—Loren B. Pope
"... deep down he was a modest man. Just look at his home at Taliesin. Instead of cutting down a tree, he built around it. He had a sensitive feeling to the creations of God. How could such a person be conceited?"
—Egon Weiner
"He was incredible. To describe him in any kind of conventional language seems an impossibility. Whatever he did, he did well—he was an avid reader, a wonderful speaker, a marvelous skater."
—Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
"No one understands the third dimension as well as he, the capacity of architecture to be an experience in depth, rather than a mere façade."
—Philip Johnson, FAIA
"In public, he had a histrionic sense. When he got on the stage, he really enjoyed tremendously playing a part, and he enjoyed tremendously shocking people....But when you were alone with [him], in his own chambers, he became not only modest but really a very humble child. He was a very beautiful human being as I knew him."
—R. Buckminster Fuller
"...my friends [told me] I was a little giddy to think about approaching the great, expensive, and imperious Frank Lloyd Wright.... I decided that no matter how busy or important, the master would listen to someone who wanted one of his works so much. In due time, a letter was dispatched telling him how important was a house by him, along with a map of the site, contours and trees—some of the specifics a client would give his architect, all of it making an excess-postage envelope. It is very likely that no normally sensitive ego would have been unmoved by such a panegyric."
—Loren B. Pope
"... deep down he was a modest man. Just look at his home at Taliesin. Instead of cutting down a tree, he built around it. He had a sensitive feeling to the creations of God. How could such a person be conceited?"
—Egon Weiner
"He was incredible. To describe him in any kind of conventional language seems an impossibility. Whatever he did, he did well—he was an avid reader, a wonderful speaker, a marvelous skater."
—Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
256 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1991
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