Author: Walter Gropius

Quotes

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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