Walter Gropius
A German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, he was a leading proponent of modernism and functional design.
Quotes by Walter Gropius
Our ultimate goal, though distant, is the complete building.
The Bauhaus believes the machine to be our modern means of design and seeks to come to terms with it.
Art and technology – a new unity.
The mind of the designer must be free to experiment, to dare, to create.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
The architect is a coordinator, not a dictator.
Form follows function.
The building is a crystal symbol of a new faith.
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
Let us create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
The complete building is the ultimate aim of all visual arts.
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all disciplines of practical art—sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts—as inseparable components of a new architecture.
The architect must be a man of wide culture, not merely a technician.
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.
The Bauhaus was not a style, but an idea.
Standardization is not an impediment to the development of culture, but one of its immediate prerequisites.
The individual is losing his importance; the community is gaining it.
The architect must be a master of all trades.
The new architecture is not a style, but a method.
The architect's task is to express the spirit of his time.