Occupation: Architect Birth: February 3, 1898 Death: May 11, 1976
In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's ….
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house..
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..
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization..
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….
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction..
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..
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….
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….
I do not write, I build..
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 ….
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….
Objects are made to be completed by the human mind..
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center..
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architectu….
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….
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper..
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….
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature..
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..