Alvar Aalto Quotes About Architecture

• 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

  Art, Design, Splits

• God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

  Alvar Aalto

  Drawing, Abuse, Purpose

• 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

  Art, Hate, Thinking

• True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

  Alvar Aalto

  Men, Architecture

  Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1998). “Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism”, ABRAMS

• The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

  Alvar Aalto

  People, Goal, House

• The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

  Alvar Aalto

  Essence, Style, Development

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

• Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

  Alvar Aalto

  Civilization, Culture, Architecture

• Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

  Alvar Aalto

  Mean, Immature, Doe

• 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

  Cities, Architecture, Problem

• Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

  Alvar Aalto

  Ties, Earth, Architecture

• 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.

  Alvar Aalto

  Ideas, Creative, Needs

  Alvar Aalto, Alvar Aalto-museo (1994). “Alvar Aalto: points of contact”

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

  Alvar Aalto

  Giving, Tasks, Architecture

  "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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