Accepted Quote by Oscar Niemeyer

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

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus…

— Martin Filler

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no…

— Walter Gropius

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range…

— Michael Ende

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

— James Dyson

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually,…

— Annabelle Selldorf

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right…

— Martin Filler

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the…

— Martin Filler

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

— Peter Zumthor

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult…

— Arne Jacobsen

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the…

— Michael Graves

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't…

— Nathaniel Kahn