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“Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.”
Source: Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)
Source: Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“We should work for simple, good, undecorated things”
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“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.”
Source: Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism
“Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.”
“It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.”
“Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.”
“Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.”
“I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.”
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Source: Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Source: Synopsis