Quotes by Walter Gropius

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.
– Walter Gropius
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
– Walter Gropius
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
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
– Walter Gropius
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
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
– Walter Gropius