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

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

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

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.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

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

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