Architecture Quote by Walter Gropius

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

— 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 days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and…

— Walter Gropius

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives…

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

— James Dyson

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

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

If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity,…

— David Steindl-Rast

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

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and…

— Walter Gropius

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge