Alvar Aalto

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

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.

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

We have to base architecture on the environment.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.