Saturday, May 19, 2007

Green Architecture Lesson of the Day

Just a brief thought on green architecture from Frank Lloyd Wright:

"What we must know is organic architecture is not found in books. It is necessary to have recourse to Nature with a capital N in order to get an education. Necessary to learn from the trees, flowers, shells - objects which contain truths of form following function. If we stopped there, then it would be merely imitation. But if we dig deep enough . . . we arrive at secrets of form related to purpose that would make of the tree a building and of the building a tree." -Frank Lloyd Wright

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amazing he got it so long ago, but we still struggle with, "how can anyone make money" with green building?

great quote.

Anonymous said...

a wonderful reminder of what can be... who doesn't love FLW?

Anonymous said...

last week's issue of the new yorker, the innovators issue, has a great piece about architecture... about a trio of architects redesigning the High Line in NYC & incorporating trees, nature directly with the old elevated train tracks...