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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing pro

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

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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

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architecture
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Alvar Aalto
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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

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architecture
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Alvar Aalto
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Architecture cant fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isnt real. – Frank Stella

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Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. – John Portman

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The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. – Helmut Jahn

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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. – Billy Corgan

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