Architect Quotes

Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.
Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
I do not write, I build.
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