Alvar Aalto Quotes


"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."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Architecture, Art, Life, Building, Nothing, Possibilities, Problems)

"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."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Committee, Nothing, Problems)

"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."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Work)

"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."
- Alvar Aalto
(Related: Art, Life, Building, Harmony, Thinking)