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I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.
Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he
lives, he becomes an architect
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings ... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee ... and the poetics of his paintings.
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.
Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
