Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument! — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
