"The architect's job is to improve society by designing functional buildings that will improve the lot of the common man [...] All things on this earth are a product of the formula: (function times economy) ... building is a biological process. Building is not an aesthetic process ... architecture which produces effects introduced by the artist has no right to exist."
-Hannes Meyer, Marxist Architect

The study of architecture, although stated as a primary goal in Gropius's famous manifesto ( "the ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building"), was not introduced as a department of study at the Bauhaus school until 1927, eight years after the original school in Weimar was founded. Gropius appointed a Swiss by the name of Hannes Meyer to head the department.

Considering Meyer's extremely left-wing political philosophy, this was quite a surprising decision. Meyer's feelings on architecture were a passionate representation of his liberal political beliefs. His mixture of liberal politics and architecture moved Bauhaus into dangerous territory in the turbulant 1930's.