The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.
The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.
The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.