Architecture begins where engineering ends..

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again..

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation..

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums..

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes..

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

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which ha….

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..

Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the….

Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a….

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a height….

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true….

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 f….

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separat….

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy..

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

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open..

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive..