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

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

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 . . .

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

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