Quotes by Walter Gropius

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American architect · American · 1883–1969

German-American architect (1883–1969)

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“The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.”
— Walter Gropius

“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.”
— Walter Gropius

“This is what has Gropius the director made the w:Bauhaus famous. Not its lamps or its furniture. They are all out of fashion already. But the way of approaching formal problems or material as such,...”
— Walter Gropius