The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection … - Alvar Aalto

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

Alvar Aalto

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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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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