A small cardboard house with a cracked corner stands beside a drafting compass and a tied roll of plans.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

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Our interpretation.

A building should grow out of its landscape rather than perch on top of it. The speaker wants house and hill to share one identity, each improved by the other's presence, so the dwelling belongs to the land instead of being an ornament placed upon it.

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