"A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the……" — Walter Gropius

"A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy."

— Walter Gropius

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15 Quotes by Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that…
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft!…
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It…
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws…
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an…
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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