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Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature."

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy."

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.




Alvar Aalto Quotes: "The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people."

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.




Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form."

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper."

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction."

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.




Alvar Aalto Quotes: "We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street."

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house."

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Objects are made to be completed by the human mind."

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "True architecture exists only where man stands in the center."

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form."

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.




Alvar Aalto Quotes: "The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie."

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture"

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization."

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure."

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture."

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "I do not write, I build."

I do not write, I build.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth."

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city."

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "We should work for simple, good, undecorated things"

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems."

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture."

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.



Alvar Aalto Quotes: "God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper."

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.