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...result, there is a rare freshness about the book, a personal as well as professional intimacy. In between the more technical passages, it is good to get a glimpse of Frank Lloyd Wright swatting flies and crying, "Mies," "Breuer" or "Gropius" at every swat, or to hear France's Auguste Ferret acidly say of his onetime associate Le Corbusier, "He is a clerk. He will pass," while Wright gleefully agreed...
...Wright and Le Corbusier are not the pivotal figures of the book; instead, they are Mies van der Rohe and to a lesser degree Walter Gropius. Mies, declaring the doctrine of "less is more," gave modern architecture its greatest discipline and refinement-the spareness visible in glass and metal in any American city. And German-born Walter Gropius, with the artists, architects and craftsmen of his famed Bauhaus at Dessau in the '205, established the grammar of design suited to modern mass production. They made simplicity and austerity and a faithfulness to function the liberating marks of the International...
Bauhaus art is self-consciously the art of the Machine Age, the age in which, according to Walter Gropius, the school's founder, the dominant spirit is "the idea of a universal unity in which all opposing forces exist in a state of absolute balance...
...second trend--frequently embraced by the same artists--proceeds from another Bauhaus principle expressed by Gropius in 1923. "We perceive every form," he wrote, "as the embodiment of an idea, every piece of work as a manifestation of our innermost selves. Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning." The most familiar examples of this concept are Paul Klee's fantasies but, Feininger and, especially, Wassily Kandinsky submit to the same influence...
Although the Federal Housing Authority approved a loan to Pappas on the basis of plans submitted by Architects Collaborative, the Walter Gropius firm, it is reported that he has since ceased talking to that firm. A reliable source has indicated that the building, if approved again under different architects, might be of light construction for sale soon afterwards...