Simple and harmony, Alvar Aalto

"We should work for simple, good, undecorated things... ...but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street."

Alvar Aalto, speech in London 1957.

Papar and architecture, Alvar Aalto

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

Alvar Aalto / Sketches, 1978, 104.

the architecture, 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 good building art. "

Alvar Aalto

the architecture, Alvar Aalto

“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.”

Alvar Aalto


...How great is the architecture depends on how deep the men feel the space...