A Builder Is Like A Little God

If You Have Total Freedom, Then You Are In Trouble. It's Much Better When You Have Some Obligation, Some Discipline, Some Rules. When You Have No Rules, Then You Start To Build Your Own Rules.

Every Year I Spend One Month Just Sailing, But I Still Work When Im On The Boat. You Never Separate Work From Leisure. A Boat Is Like A Magic World, Like A Little Island.

As An Architect You Are A Builder. You Are Of Course More Than A Builder. You Need To Be A Militant, You Have To Be A Poet, You Have To Be A Visionary, You Have To Be An Artist. But Certainly You Have To Be A Builder. Everything Starts From There.

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.

When A Man Is Not Satisfied With A House Where He Lives, He Becomes An Architect