But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself. Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality. Frank Lloyd Wright on skyscrapers.
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part. He was too good for the job. Frank Lloyd Wright when asked why he didn't vote for a particular presidential candidate. 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.