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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.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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.
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Our guidin... (more Walter Gropius quotes)
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Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition by Nikolaus Pevsner and Richard Weston |
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Walter Gropius: 1883- 1969 the Promoter of a New Form (Taschen Basic Architecture) by Gilbert Lupfer, Paul, Dr. Sigel, and Peter Gossel |
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Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard (Center Books) by Jill Pearlman |
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