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Quote by Walter Gropius
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of

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

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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. – Walter Gropius

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Walter Gropius
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. – Frank Gehry

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But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. – Thom Mayne

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After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. – Harry Seidler

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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. – Michael Ende

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