Organic Architecture Quotes

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

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.

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.

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

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

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.

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

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

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.