“In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source of invention. Nobody can invent better than nature and so if you like nature is my biggest source of inspiration.” IfsBelieveHeartIdeasEndsInspirationI BelieveNatureSourceMy HeartArchitectureInventionBiologyInventingSource Of InspirationMost Inspiring Author:Ken Yeang
“I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.” ThinkingShouldHumansSelfStatesNatureHuman BeingsExistenceSupportBuildingArchitectureInterfereEcologyEcologicalEcosystemsSustainingStasis Author:Ken Yeang
“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.” ShouldLittlesNatureCitiesStudyArchitecturePainterHillsArchitectDomesArchitecture And Art Book:The seven lamps of architecture Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” BelieveGodEarthReligionI BelieveNatureAtheismAtheistI Believe InArchitectureBelieve In GodSpellsArchitectAgnosticPaganMother EarthThere Is No GodAgnosticismAtheisticEarth DayBelief In GodNature And EnvironmentIf There Is A GodI Believe In GodNature LoveEarth And NatureThere Being No GodGreen EarthInspirational NatureSpiritual NatureBeautiful EarthGreen LivingGod And NatureBeautiful NatureFunny AtheistBeauty Of The EarthInspirational EarthLove And NatureGod NatureMechanizationNature RelatedOrganic Architecture Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.” UseScienceNatureHistoryPerspectiveDiversityMathematicsArchitectureAidsAstronomySufficientSubtletyInterveningDexterity Book:Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis
“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.” WholeSciencePurposeFightingNatureDemocracyMaterialsPerformancesArchitectureOrganic Architecture Author:Frank Lloyd Wright