Walter Gropius Quotes

I'm very interested in architecture.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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

I love architecture.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

Building design isn't trendy.

I never built houses, only apartments.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

Most of the job on DDP was already done by the time I became mayor. So was Gwanghwamun Square, described by many architects as the city's worst architectural creation, and the new city hall. I did not think that redoing them would be the right approach as that would only create new problems.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.