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Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto
Finnish Architect
Born: Feb 3, 1898
Died: May 11, 1976
Architecture Build Every Life Problems Work
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid
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
Fruit People Architecture Paradise Build Every Our Earthly House Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal Endeavour Create Should Product
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. Alvar Aalto
Work Time Creative Architecture World Too Other Everything More Develop Takes Develops Demands Ideas Fish Than Just Spawn Fully Creative Work Grown Speck Need
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Alvar Aalto
Culture Architecture Civilization Belongs
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature. Alvar Aalto
Nature Must Content Linked Form
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
Work Good Man Human Being Simple Suited Harmony Human Being Which Little Organically Little Man Should Street Things
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture. Alvar Aalto
Daily Culture Harmony Smallest Chore Even
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
Problem Problems Three Nothing Every Other Hundred City Almost Dealing Committee Committees Just Just One Two
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
Life Music Comedy Life Is A Shapes Combination Accompanying Tragedy Surround Human Us Human Life Designs
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. Alvar Aalto
God Me Architecture Else Everything Everything Else Paper Drawing Purpose Abuse Least Created
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. Alvar Aalto
You Build Easier Tell City House Opera Than Personal Center Grand
Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey. Alvar Aalto
Journey Every Buildings Italian Begins
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. Alvar Aalto
Life Art Good Architecture Dangerous Problems Building Nothing Possibilities Split Make Dealing Separated
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. Alvar Aalto
Best Nature World Result Herself Possible Never Mainly Smallest Combinations Occurs Encounters Committee Cells Which Flexible Connection Units Millions
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. Alvar Aalto
Architecture National Local Earth Merely Clearly Ties Rooted

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