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• ‟ Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

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• ‟ One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.

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• ‟ The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

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• ‟ New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

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• ‟ The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

  - Walter Gropius