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It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

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I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

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Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

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There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.

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Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

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There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Architect

Born: April 1st, 1943

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