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“We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.”

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Walter Gropius, a German architect and a pioneer of modern architecture, was born on May 18, 1883, and died on July 5, 1969. He founded the Bauhaus, which had a profound impact on architectural education. more

“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.”

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

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Author: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.”

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Author:Walter Gropius

“Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.”

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Author:Walter Gropius

“I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.”

Want Has Beens Done Lasts Past Demand Architect Reverence

Author:Louis Kahn

“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.”

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Author:Louis Kahn

“Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.”

Made Architecture Unnatural

Author:Louis Kahn

“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.”

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Author:Louis Kahn

“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”

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Author:Louis Kahn

“I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.”

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Book:The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn

Source: The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn

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