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If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

— Frank Lloyd Wright Lecture to the Chicago chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (1904)

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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.

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Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.

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