Green ivy grows from a rolled blue sheet resting on rust-coloured ground.

Original artwork, not a still

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The statement describes architecture as life taking visible form, then calls it the truest record of how people live. Its sweep extends from yesterday into the future. Buildings become expressions of human existence in this view, carrying significance beyond their immediate practical purposes.

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