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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. "

" 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. "

" The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. "

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

" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. "

" 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 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. "

" I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. "

" I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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