Author: Walter Gropius

Quotes

Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

- Walter Gropius

The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

- Walter Gropius

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

- Walter Gropius

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

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

- Walter Gropius

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

- Walter Gropius

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

- Walter Gropius

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