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We should concentrate our wor...

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.

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Nothing old is ever reborn, b...

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.

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Beauty is the harmony of purp...

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

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I tell you, it is easier to b...

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

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Modern architecture does not ...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

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The very essence of architect...

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

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In almost every task involvin...

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 will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.

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Form must have a content, and...

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

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Just as it takes time for a s...

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 crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

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The best standardisation comm...

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.

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God created paper for the pur...

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

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Architecture belongs to cultu...

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

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Even the smallest daily chore...

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

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We should work for simple, go...

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.

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God created paper for the pur...

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

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The ultimate goal of the arch...

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.

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Building art is a synthesis o...

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.

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The most difficult problems a...

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.

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Once I tried to make a standa...

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.

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Nothing is as dangerous in ar...

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.

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