Knowing How To Do Things Not Just

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

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.

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 And Market, National History And Everyday Stories. It Takes 500 Years To Create A City, 50 To Create A Neighborhood.

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.

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 Surface.