You Can Put Down A Bad Book;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.