Alvar Aalto

The most important thing is to create a feeling of comfort.

The architect must be a humanist.

The building should be a work of art.

Architecture is a living art.

The most important thing is to create a sense of harmony.

The architect must be a master of light and shadow.

The building should be a joy to behold.

Architecture is a journey, not a destination.

The most important thing is to create a sense of belonging.

The architect must be a dreamer.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart, but even then it must be tempered with the sharpness of the hand saw.

I do not admire the architecture of the past because it is the past, but because it was suited to its time.

The greatest modern architecture is not born of theory but of necessity.

Form follows nature, not function alone.

In every case, one must distinguish between the material and the spiritual aspects of architecture.

The human being is the measure of all things in architecture.

Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition of formulas.

Architecture is petrified music.

I am always suspicious of pure mathematics in architecture; it lacks the warmth of life.

The curve is the line of beauty in architecture.