“Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a full...” — Alvar Aalto Quote

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.

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.

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.

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.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I would hope that the Government would still support those small, struggling independent theatre companies and also maybe look to the built architecture of the theaters because we can't let them get into disrepair. They are part of the fabric of the country.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I call architecture frozen music.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.