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The architect works in the territory of memory.
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Architect
Territory
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I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.
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Museum
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A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
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Lower
Museum
Voices
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The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.
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Architect
Exhibit
Museum
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Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
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Architecture
Clear
Simple
Great Always Past
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Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
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Architecture
Church
Sacred
Need
Man
Idea
Fundamental
Which
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For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
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Dream
Architecture
Space
Creating
Protect
Space Me People
Well
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It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
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Theory
Background
Useful
Practical
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I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.
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Ancient
Materials
Naturally
Prefer
Formed
Modernize
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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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.
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Architecture
Fascinating
University
Houses
Studying
Subject
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There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.
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No Point
San Francisco
Synthetic
Designing
Francisco
San
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There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.
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Death
Marriage
Birth
Church
Humanity
Most Powerful
Mystery
Powerful
Privilege
Confronted
Shelters
Themes
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Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
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Architecture
Aspect
Busy
Cities
Contemporary
Fragmented
Lost
Inside
Skin
Buildings
Outside
Skull
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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 building.
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Architecture
Academy
Afar
Architects
Builders
Master
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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 Switzerland.
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Architecture
Academy
Circumstances
Propose
Switzerland
Favourable
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Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.
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Men
Culture
Fighting
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Artificial light is used because you can control it better. Technically, it is more homogeneous, more delicate, and less damaging to artwork. But I think it's interesting when the visitor can see variations in the light, when it is not only technical or suitable.
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Artificial
Delicate
Suitable
Damaging
Technically
Variations
Visitor
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The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.
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Bad Ass
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