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Alvar Aalto Quotes

Finnish - Architect | February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976

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.

Architecture People Fruit House Goal

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Culture Architecture Civilization

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

Daily Culture Harmony Even Smallest

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.

Life Art Together Architecture Hat

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.

Work Daily Architecture City Problem

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

Time People Know More Who Our Time

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

City You House Build Personal Opera

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.

Life Music Comedy Life Is A Tragedy

I do not write, I build.

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

Nature Content Must Form Linked

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.

Life Good Art Architecture Building

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.

Life Lie Problems Search Values Way

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