“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
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.
“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'
Manifesto (1919)
As quoted in Paul Klee, 1879-1940 (2000) by w:Susanna Partsch, p. 47
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
In Architects on Architecture, Speech, Harvard Department of Architecture (Paul Heyer (ed.))