A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic … - Walter Gropius

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Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

Walter Gropius

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

Architectural, Building, Design, Logically, Lying, Solely

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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

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Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building!. . . Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft!. . . The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. . . . Let us form. . . a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists!. . . Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

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The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

Leadership, Mind, Open, Umbrella

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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