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• Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a…
• Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
• We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the…
• Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities…
• We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has…
• The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our…
• Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy…
• The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible…
• God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
• We should work for simple, good, undecorated things
• Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
• The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style…

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