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A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

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For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

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I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

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Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

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The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

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The architect works in the territory of memory.

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Artificial light is used because you can control it better. Technically, it is more homogeneous, more delicate, and less damaging to artwork. But I think it's interesting when the visitor can see variations in the light, when it is not only technical or suitable.

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The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

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In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

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To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Architect

Born: April 1st, 1943

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