Let us consciously be imaginary architects

"There is almost nothing to build, and if we can really build somewhere, we do it to live. Or maybe you're lucky enough to be carrying out a good contract? I'm finding the practice to be cloying, and in principle, you all seem to be feeling the same way. Honestly: it is completely good that today nothing's being 'built.' Things can thus mature, we can collect our strength, and when it begins again, then we'll know our goals and be strong enough to protect our residents from dangerous adhesion or degeneracy. Let us consciously be imaginary architects."
--Bruno Taut

November 1919 and the post-World War I situation in Germany was dire. It would only get worse as hyperinflation skyrocketed for the next four years. While architects wanted to build, they found they could only educate and design. It was when the Bauhaus began and it was the site of a visionary exchange about the promise of architecture -- not as it was built but how it would be imagined. The group of 13 included Walter Gropius, Bruno and Max Taut, Hans Scharoun; they imagined the possibility of using film to express their ideas; they exchanged images and poetry and words.

(It also, amusingly, has a Myspace page.)