- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do not write, I build.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.
- Endeavour
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020