A Piazza Is Not A Plaza. The

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

Architecture Is Art. I Don't Think You Should Say That Too Much, But It Is Art. I Mean, Architecture Is Many, Many Things. Architecture Is Science, Is Technology, Is Geography, Is Typography, Is Anthropology, Is Sociology, Is Art, Is History. You Know All This Comes Together. Architecture Is A Kind Of Bouillabaisse, An Incredible Bouillabaisse. And, By The Way, Architecture Is Also A Very Polluted Art In The Sense That It's Polluted By Life, And By The Complexity Of Things.

A Museum Is A Place Where One Should Lose One's Head.

A Builder Is Like A Little God - Somebody Who Does Things, Doesnt Just Draw Things.

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.