... for the School of Arts and Crafts to be combined with the Academy of Art. This new institution was called the BAUHAUS and it was destined to become the most influential design school of the time (or since). "The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building."" (Walter Gropius, Director of the Bauhaus, 1919) The quote above is one which Gropius wrote in the opening lines of the Bauhaus manifesto. "The decoration of buildings was once the noblest function of the fine ... day rise towards heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith" (Walter Gro...

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