Society Needs A Good Image Of Itself.

Specialists Are People Who Always Repeat The Same Mistakes.

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 . . .

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 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.

Since Art Is Dead In The Actual Life Of Civilized Nations, It Has Been Relegated To These Grotesque Morgues, Museums.