You Have To Accept As An Architect

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.

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.

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. This Is What Europeans Understand.

I Dont Remember A Single Thing In My Childhood That Was Not Related In Some Way To Building.

A Builder Is Like A Little God - Somebody Who Does Things, Doesnt Just Draw Things.