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Mario Botta Quotes

Swiss - Architect | April 1, 1943 -

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Art Spiritual People Museum Place

The architect works in the territory of memory.

Memory Architect Territory Works

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

Architecture Space People Me Dream

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.

Architecture Busy You Buildings Skin

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

Great Simple Architecture Past Clear

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

Design Museum Everything Seem Clear

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

City Artist Museum Build Architect

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

History Art Building Learn Theory

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.

Marriage Great Death Me Church

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.

History Architecture World Building

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.

Architecture Foundation Circumstances

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.

Architecture Me Building Small Going

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