London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design..

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middl….

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings..

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 rul….

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

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 visionar….

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 ….

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.….

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head..

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….

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building..

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat….

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things..

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things..

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, i….

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your ….

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 ….

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, ….

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well..

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..