“For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.”

“To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.”

“Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.”

“Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.”

“The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of bu...”

“In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in...”

“The great are strongest when they stand alone,A God-given might of being is their force.”

“What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.”

“We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”