Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
About Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropiuswas a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919).
More quotes from Walter Gropius
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
German-American architect (1883-1969)
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
German-American architect (1883-1969)
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
German-American architect (1883-1969)
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
German-American architect (1883-1969)
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
German-American architect (1883-1969)