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

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Build Center City Easier Grand House Opera Personal Tell Than You

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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

Topics: Being Good Harmony Human Human Being Little Little Man Man Organically Should Simple Street Suited Things Which Work

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

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Content Form Linked Must Nature

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Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Begins Buildings Every Italian Journey

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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.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Architecture Art Building Dangerous Dealing Good Life Make Nothing Possibilities Problems Separated Split

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

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Know Less More More And More More Or Less Our Our Time People Time Who

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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

Topics: Almost City Committee Committees Dealing Every Hundred Just Just One Nothing Other Problem Problems Three Two

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

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Abuse Architecture Created Drawing Else Everything Everything Else God Least Me Paper Purpose

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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

Topics: Combination Comedy Designs Human Human Life Life Life Is A Music Shapes Surround Tragedy Us

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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

Topics: Best Cells Combinations Committee Connection Encounters Flexible Herself Mainly Millions Nature Never Occurs Possible Result Smallest Units Which World

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Architect

Born: February 3rd, 1898

Died: May 11th, 1976

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