Walter Gropius Quotes

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its d...

The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the s...

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagi...

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply a...

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: archite...

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace arc...

The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the discipl...

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have...

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in w...

Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I...

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects ...

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shak...

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of b...

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them i...

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' The...

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.