”I have throughout almost my entire life searched for means for flexible standardization. The objective is standardization that does not force life into any kind of pattern, but rather, on the contrary, increases its variety. […] The blossoms of an apple tree are standardized, yet they are all different. This is how we, too, should learn to build.” A thoroughly Shakeresque thought from designer Alvar Aalto, and the title of a new show dedicated to seven of his buildings at the Tartu University Library in Finland.