Alvar Aalto

"Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things."

"God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper."