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page127from Nordic Architects Writes
1941
Alvar Aalto
Research for Reconstruction: Rehousing
Research in Finland
Here emphasis is laid on the building
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page125from Nordic Architects Writes
anything and which do not have any
connection with our contemporary life. We have to get rid of the styles. They
are poison for living architecture, for living art.
They
do not use styles in other arts, do they?
Or
could you imagine someone speaking about Galsworthy’s books and saying: “Is it
early Italian, or is it Greek, or is it Spanish?” No. Or, could you imagine
someone speaking about Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and saying: “Is it early
Orpheus, or late Liszt, or Middle Mozart?”... more ...
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page124from Nordic Architects Writes
someone says: “How can we teach
architecture when we have nothing to go by? We have no theories, no styles. It
is difficult.” It is difficult, or it is easy, it all depends. I would say: it
is impossible, or it is very easy.
It
is impossible if the teacher has no sense for the deeper meaning of
architecture and the student has no talent. You cannot grow roses from cabbage.
But if the teacher is a living artist, and if the student has natural gifts to
become a living artist, it is very easy. You hardly need to teach him. He will
find his path himself.
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page123from Nordic Architects Writes
But our building problems are so manifold
in comparison with the earlier times. Every day brings new materials and new
construction methods. And we ask: are our architects able to concentrate
themselves, to listen to the voice of our fundamental form? Do we have enough
creative power to build up our own style? Style, cannot be artificially made. It
comes or it does not come. But if it does come, it comes only through
intuition. Style grows as folk songs grow. People sing their songs, and those
songs which express deepest the best feeling of the nation remain as folk
songs. It is the fundamental form of the nation which sings through the soul of
the nation.
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