Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
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.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
