Quotes by : Walter Gropius

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination.....

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken....

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

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which....

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

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

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development.....

The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony....