Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

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

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

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. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. 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.