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 has long since disappeared?
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… - Walter Gropius
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…
- Walter Gropius
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… - Walter Gropius
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…
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. - Walter Gropius
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. - Walter Gropius
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a height… - Walter Gropius
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a height…
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive. - Walter Gropius
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism - Walter Gropius
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open. - Walter Gropius
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. - Walter Gropius
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
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