Design 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... Walter Gropius 25
Soul Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause. Walter Gropius 29
Happiness We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh,... Walter Gropius 28
Architecture The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in... Walter Gropius 22
Architecture I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time,... Walter Gropius 17
Architecture The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas... Walter Gropius 37
Art The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting,... Walter Gropius 31
Architecture Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one... Walter Gropius 26
