If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Quote by Walter Gropius

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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but...

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but...

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture is the work of nations

Architecture is the work of nations

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

An architect is the drawer of dreams

An architect is the drawer of dreams