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I do not write, I build.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Build Write

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Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Architecture Belongs Civilization Culture

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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

Topics: Architecture Build Create Earthly Endeavour Every Fruit Goal House Our Paradise People Product Should Ultimate Ultimate Goal

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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

Topics: Art Bring Building Form Harmony Hat Life Same Should Synthesis Thinking Together Try Way

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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

Topics: Behind Contemporary Difficult Forms Human Human Values Involved Lie Life Most Naturally Our Problems Question Real Search Values Way Which Working

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Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Buildings Connection Course Day Depends Design Every Every Day Height Houses Kinds Make New Oldest Once Our Staircase Standardization Standardized Step Steps Things Tried I Tried

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

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Architecture Clearly Earth Local Merely National Rooted Ties

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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.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Chair Constructive Human Light Mass Point Point Of View Points Production Rational Satisfactory Steel Suitable Surely Technical View

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

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Chore Culture Daily Even Harmony Smallest

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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

Topics: City Concentrate Daily Daily Work Functions Housing Involved Only Other Our Problem Separated Should Work

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Architect

Born: February 3rd, 1898

Died: May 11th, 1976

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