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 authentic democracy.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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 . . .

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

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.