{"author":"Alvar Aalto","author_id":"Alvar+Aalto","total_quotes":11,"quotes":[{"text":"God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["god","purpose","me "],"id":24525,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["day","step","every day "],"id":26332,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["good","man","simple "],"id":135980,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["work","daily","city "],"id":188635,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["life","art","together "],"id":231367,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["life","art","good "],"id":294434,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["earth","national","ties "],"id":412938,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"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.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["goal","people","fruit "],"id":416844,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["life","style","development "],"id":443318,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"},{"text":"Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.","author":"Alvar Aalto","tags":["culture","civilization "],"id":473351,"author_id":"Alvar+Aalto"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}