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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.


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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.



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



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.



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.



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.



Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.



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.



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.



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.



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.





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