Approach Quote by Walter Gropius

“The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.”

Walter Gropius

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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

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