Quotes by Alvar Aalto

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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