The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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 . . .

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

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

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.

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.