Occupation: Architect Birth: February 3, 1898 Death: May 11, 1976
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.
It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure..
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 h….
Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form..
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..
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center..
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….
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature..
Objects are made to be completed by the human mind..
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper..
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to ma….
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture..
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 o….
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architectu….
I do not write, I build..
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction..
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth..
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 bui….
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 be….
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystalliz….
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 ….