It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

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.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.