Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropiuswas a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth18 May 1883
CityBerlin, Germany
CountryGermany
Walter Gropius quotes about
spiritual compulsion products
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
creative mind creative-mind
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
fighting artistic imitation
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
guiding-principles design intellectual
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.
engineering design architecture
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
law want building
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
leadership mind umbrella
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
immortality claims contribution
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.
mistake people specialists
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
democracy architecture modern
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
wind hands may
However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.