A Builder Is Like A Little God

I Dont Remember A Single Thing In My Childhood That Was Not Related In Some Way To Building.

Architects Have To Dream, We Have To Search For Our Atlantises, To Be Explorers, Adventurers, And Yet To Build Responsibly And Well.

Knowing How To Do Things Not Just With The Head, But With The Hands As Well: This Might Seem A Programmatic And Ideological Goal. It Is Not. It Is A Way Of Safeguarding Creative Freedom.

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.

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.