Alvar Aalto
arquitecto e deseñador finlandés
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 de febreiro de 1898, Kuortane, Finlandia - 11 de maio de 1976) foi un arquitecto finlandés e pintor que tamén destacou como deseñador de mobles, tecidos, cristais, etc...
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- "En case todas as tarefas relativas ás formas hai millares de elementos que por vontade humana son forzados a traballar en harmonía. Só pola arte se pode alcanzar esa harmonía".
- - Nearly every design task involves tens, often hundreds, sometimes thousands of different contradictory elements, which are forced into a functional harmony only by man's will. This harmony cannot be achieved by any other means than those of art.
- - Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism - Páxina 21, Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) - Museum of Modern Art, 1998, ISBN 0-87070-107-X, 9780870701078 - 319 páxinas
- - Nearly every design task involves tens, often hundreds, sometimes thousands of different contradictory elements, which are forced into a functional harmony only by man's will. This harmony cannot be achieved by any other means than those of art.