" Architecture is a cumbersome, voluminous fact, a physical presence that transforms (it is not a book or a drawing): here, this definition of Giorgio Grassi seems to me apt, especially in the concept of transforming a place; to me it is often happened to have to transform "corners" of unhappy world. "

 

"Is architecture the wise, correct, magnificent play of volumes under the light?

I don't think so, often the light is missing here and so I want to design "composite architectures", floors etched only by windows, without overhangs or loggias. But not always ... "

                                                                                       

"This is a study by an architect from the rear, a more captivating way to say a provincial architect. A couple of decades ago it was an advantage, today no longer. The city, the metropolis, Milan is now the cultural and physical capital of architecture .

It follows that my experience is an activity that I call "resistance", in places where no one knows or has ever known the language of architecture . "

             

"How to communicate architecture . You watch television and you only see cooks and kitchen broadcasts. At this point, to explain what architecture is, it is better to use a recipe. Here are its ingredients:

- 200 grams of art;

- 500 grams of technique;

- 100 grams of science;

- patience and tenacity as required.

Vitruvian triad in cocktail sauce. "

                  

"I believe that in seventy years we will still study the architecture of Herzog and De Meuron as we study that of Le Corbusier today. However, I continue to look at that of Louis Kahn."

    

"I studied at the Polytechnic of Milan, I love Milanese architects of the modern tradition, I highly respect Ignazio Gardella."

 

"Gratings and pergolas are architecture , I am convinced. Enric Miralles was also obsessed with it."

       

"For me the kitchen is white, mine, that of my house by the sea and those of my customers ...

Perhaps for one of those considerations of Aldo Rossi in the scientific Autobiography.

I can't write anything about the type and color of the sofas. I forgot, for me the bathrooms must be small.

The interior design is however an architectural project, the transformation of a closed space that relates to the outside through the openings. "

 

"I have a dream, that of writing a book, perhaps the desire to compose a book. I always think of Primo Levi's" dry ", pure, minimal writing in his tales of" The periodic system ". Here I would like to write" The architectural system ", With stories about the excavation, the structure, the plaster, the door, the window, the electrical system."