the ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building! the decoration of buildings was once the noblest function of fine arts, and fine arts were indispensable to great architecture. today they exist in complacent isolation, and can only be rescued by the conscious co-operation and collaboration of all craftsmen. architects, painters, and sculptors must once again come to know and comprehend the composite character of a building, both as an entity and in terms of its various parts. then their work will be filled with that true architectonic spirit which, as "salon art", it has lost.
let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! let us desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future together. it will combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single form, and will one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith.
WALTER GROPIUS, BAUHAUS MANIFESTO
less is more.
