Walter Gropius
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"Walter Adolph Georg Gropius" was a Germans/German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

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

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.

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

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.

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