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A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

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In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

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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.

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Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

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There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

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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.

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As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

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A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

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A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Architect

Born: September 14th, 1937

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