Walter Gropius Quotes


However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.


Citations

Gropius, Walter. Letter to Alma Mahler. Quoted in MacCarthy, Fiona. Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus. Faber & Faber, 2019.

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Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
  • Born: May 18, 1883
  • Died: July 5, 1969
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Architect

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He is a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style.