Architecture Quote by Alvar Aalto

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

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

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

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

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

— Alvar Aalto

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

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

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

— Alvar Aalto

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

— Alvar Aalto

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

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

— Alvar Aalto

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