Walter Gropius Quotes

There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Building design isn't trendy.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I always have a soft spot in my heart for New York designers and independent designers, people who are doing the fashion equivalent of what I'm trying to do in film.

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.