Walter Gropius Quotes

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.