Best quotes by Alvar Aalto on Life

Checkout quotes by Alvar Aalto on Life

  • 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.
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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.
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  • The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
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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.
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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.
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