The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
From Alvar Aalto
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
I do not write, I build.
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.
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.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
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.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
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.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
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