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
law want building
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
fighting artistic imitation
The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
spiritual compulsion products
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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.
artist class together
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.
creative mind creative-mind
Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.