Quote by Alvar Aalto
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We shoul

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
architecture
Read Quote

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

Category:
architecture
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. – Le Corbusier

Category:
architecture

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

Category:
architecture

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

Category:
architecture

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think its still coming to computer science. – Larry Wall

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. – Shirley Manson

Category:
famous

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well. – Anton Chekhov

Category:
Art

And in my heart, sweet Autumn, thou art the awakener of many, many things. At thy touch the deep fountain of memory is stirred, and its shadowy bank is thronged with many cherished images and hallowed recollections of the Past! – Elizabeth J. Eames, “An Autumn Reverie,” October 1840

Category:
Autumn

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. – Abraham Cahan

Category:
Faith