Walter Gropius Quotes

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.

✵ 18. May 1883 – 5. July 1969
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Famous Walter Gropius Quotes

“The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.”

As quoted in The Art of Looking Sideways by w:Alan Fletcher, p. 129

“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.”

In 'The Observer' (London), 'Sayings of the Week'

“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”

In Architects on Architecture, Speech, Harvard Department of Architecture (Paul Heyer (ed.))

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