Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
タグ: aggressive, own, my-own, attitude

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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
タグ: day, architecture, future, faith
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
タグ: together, painting, architecture, future
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
タグ: who, always, mistakes, people
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
タグ: than, present, more, influence
New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
タグ: steel, glass, construction, new
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