Finally got around to reading this book that my uncle gave me two summers ago in Hong Kong. I figured it was good prep material to learn a bit about my exchange school's history. ;)
"'Quality work' was one of the Werkbund's highest aims and favourite catchphroases in its efforts to safeguard Germany's position as s major industrial power. Its impressive list of founder artists and architects included Richard Riemerschmid, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, Bruno Paul Fritz Schumacher, Wihelm Kreis, Peter Behrens, Theodor Niemeyer, Max Läuger, and J.J Scharvogel." (pg. 12)
"For the first time youth was taken seriously as a generation in its own right, instead of being treated as an intermediate stage on the road to adulthood." (pg. 14)
"Gropius write: 'Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form. Architecture and sculpture and painting.'" (pg. 18)
"'The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!'" (pg. 22)
"The early Bauhaus years were characterized by a powerful community spirit." (pg. 22)
"Itten taught under the motto 'Play becomes party - party becomes work - work becomes play.' The same link between work and play was in Gropius' mind when he wrote the Bauhaus manifesto: 'Theatre, lectures, poetry, music, costume balls.'" (pg. 37)
"Gropius described his style of leadership in a letter to one disenchanted with the Bauhaus, Ferdinand Kramer: 'My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.'" (pg. 50)
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