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.
Alvar AaltoModern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
Alvar AaltoNothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.
Alvar Aalto