List of Alvar Aalto Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Just As It Takes Time For A Speck Of Fish Spawn To Develop Into A Fully Grown Fish, So, Too, We Need Time For Everything That Develops And Crystallizes In The World Of Ideas. Architecture Demands More Of This Time Than Other Creative Work.

Our Time Is So Specialised That We Have People Who Know More And More Or Less And Less.

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.

In Almost Every Task Involving Form, There Are Dozens, Often Hundreds Of Contradictory Elements, Which Need To Be Forced To Work In Harmony By Man's Will. This Harmony Can Be Acheived Only Through Art.

Even The Smallest Daily Chore Can Be Humanized With The Harmony Of Culture.

We Should Work For Simple, Good, Undecorated Things

Architecture Is Not Merely National But Clearly Has Local Ties In That It Is Rooted In The Earth.

The Very Essence Of Architecture Consists Of A Variety And Development Reminiscent Of Natural Organic Life. This Is The Only True Style In Architecture

I Do Not Write, I Build.