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Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
I do not write, I build.
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
The ultimate goal of the architect ... is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture ... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
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.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
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.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
