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 - Página 21, Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) - Museum of Modern Art, 1998, ISBN 087070107X, 9780870701078 - 319 páginas
Alvar Aalto frases e citações
Alvar Aalto: Frases em inglês
Alvar Aalto, quoted in: Bruce Newlands The Art of Building http://www.cicstart.org/userfiles/file/IR9_28-38.pdf, cicstart.org