A Builder Is Like A Little God

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.

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.

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.

Cities Are Beautiful Because They Are Created Slowly; They Are Made By Time. A City Is Born From A Tangle Of Monuments And Infrastructures , Culture And Market, National History And Everyday Stories. It Takes 500 Years To Create A City, 50 To Create A Neighborhood.

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.