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Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German Architect
Born: May 18, 1883
Died: Jul 5, 1969
Architecture Art Creative Life Will World
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Bjarke Ingels Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Zaha Hadid
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. Walter Gropius
Future Faith Day Together Architecture Will Painting Unity One Day Embrace Rise Structure Toward Conceive New Like Crystal Hands Heaven Which Us Create Workers Sculpture Let Us Million Symbol Desire
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened. Walter Gropius
Life War Mind Meaning Of Life Rage Mad Nerves Through Shattered Am Sitting Any Which Meaning Meaning Of Chains Here
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist! Walter Gropius
Class Creative Arrogant Every Imagination Distinctions Guild Lies Between Prime New Without Source Craft Artist Craftsman Essential Craftsmen Then Us Create Barrier Therein Let Us Proficiency Raise
Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause. Walter Gropius
Blessing Soul Creative Trees Find Restore Troubled His Urban Might Pause
The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat. Walter Gropius
Protection Responsibility Habitat Believe Our Architect Development Greatest Planner
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination. Walter Gropius
Fear Tyranny Will Myth Crushed Out Examination Individuality Sort Withstand Cannot Which Standardization Growing
The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold. Walter Gropius
Culture World Old Slow Arrogant Spirit Mentally Empire New Bourgeois Proven His Intellectual Overthrown German Trained Being Midst Incapacity Unimaginative Mold Now Incorrectly
With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way. Walter Gropius
Time Creative Matters Few Young Guide Way Sunk Able More Only Exceptions Study Longer Also Learners Masters Very Personal Same Any Craftsmanship Same Time Formal Low Persons Who Technical Universally
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, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us. Walter Gropius
Happiness Time World Will Own Changed Harsh Ourselves Adjust Must Distress Find Able Totally Individual Beauties Sooner New His Germany Forget Personal Different Which Us Each Each Individual Deepen Albeit
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. Walter Gropius
You Will Somebody Claim Has-Been Immortality Vital Pick Always Been Off Left Up Contribution Where Your
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue. Walter Gropius
Architecture Stage Confuse Architects Main Development New Obstacles Issue Encountered Very Personal Conflicting Theories Helped Serious Early
One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall. Walter Gropius
Has-Been Abolition Outstanding New Been Wall Achievements Separating Function Technique
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument! Walter Gropius
Life Good Feel Good Dangerous Others Feel Instrument Make Am Doing Go Sting Wherever Create
I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin. Walter Gropius
Spiritual Judge Brothers Feel Over Ideas Make Himself German Very Who Origin
As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences. Walter Gropius
Art Government Me Made Consequences Approved Easily Would Unpleasant Criticizing About Russia Risking Remark Hostile Taken Put Name Well Policy Without Italy Up Very Germany Report Official Any Cannot Which Against Act Present
The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi. Walter Gropius
Life Man Problem Light Space Air Minimum Able Develop He Without Limitations Due His Heat Dwelling Establishing Order Experiencing Place Required Fully Elementary Functions
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time. Walter Gropius
Time You Experience Problems Degree Field Difficulties Others One Or Two Ability Able Some No-One He Part Taken Feels Know Himself Person Any Just Expert Public Fields Really Certain Certain Degree Display Each Two Appreciate
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. Walter Gropius
Politics Art Capitalism Generation Made Power Broad Our Our Generation Vital Sluggish Mired Bourgeois Creatively
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building! Walter Gropius
Creative Building Aim Ultimate Activity
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. Walter Gropius
Future Together Architecture Will Building Painting Everything New Form Which Us Create Sculpture Let Us
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. Walter Gropius
Life Design Society Everyone Our Guiding Neither Civilized Civilized Society Part Simply Stuff Principle Material Affair Integral Integral Part Nor Intellectual Necessary
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. Walter Gropius
Art Together Creative Architecture Painting Inseparable Components New Practical Disciplines Effort Crafts Sculpture Whole Bring
Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing. Walter Gropius
Nature Relationship Man Change Blessing Power Become Tremendously Earth Evolved Mutual Instead Surface His May Curse Grown
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. Walter Gropius
Work Spiritual Only Compulsion Which Meaning Product Inner
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again. Walter Gropius
World Become Painting Drawing Must Mere Builds Artist Again Pattern Designer Applied

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