Architecture Quote by Mario Botta

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in…

— Mario Botta

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…

— Mario Botta

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

— Mario Botta

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

— Mario Botta

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

— Mario Botta

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because…

— Mario Botta

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

— Mario Botta

Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to…

— Mario Botta

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

— Mario Botta

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…

— Mario Botta

I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.

— Mario Botta

The architect works in the territory of memory.

— Mario Botta