Carolina QuotesWalter Gropius
North Carolina · connected1883–1969
German-American architect (1883–1969)
- Worked at Black Mountain College
architect, pedagogue, urban planner, designer, teacher, industrial designer
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The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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 fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.
The ultimate goal of all visual artistic activity is construction! Architects, painters and sculptors must learn again to know and understand the multi-faceted form of building in its entirety as well as its parts. Only then will they of their own accord fill their works with the architectonic spirit they have lost in the art of the salon. Let us establish a new guild of craftsmen without the presumption of class distinctions building a wall of arrogance between craftsmen and artists. Together let us call for, devise and create the construction of the future, comprising everything in one form: architecture, sculpture and painting.
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Apollo in the democracy
· 1968
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Bauhaus, 1919-1928
· 1938
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Scope of total architecture
· 1955
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The new architecture and the Bauhaus
· 1935
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Walter Gropius
· 1970
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Weimar-Bauten
· 1980
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