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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells.… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
