Gropius Design Philosophy

"The Modern society must entrust new task and new possibilities to the theater. It was must no longer be a mere sideshow to distract the lower classes from responsible activity. Still less was it for the kind of performance with an 18th century elite had envisaged when it built its theaters in hierarchical term (stalls, circles,boxes). On the contrary, the theater must revive sensibility, its must be an active spiritual force, with which man, worn by industrial labor, recharged his own vital processes; in the end, it was a much needed school for the mind. In other words, its was a theater for all, taking its form from all the interest and the center of which it stood, and becoming a complete theater"

Walter Gropius