Zitat des Tages von Mario Botta:
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
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.
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
