For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. -Mario Botta Space
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. -Mario Botta Art
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. -Mario Botta Architecture
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. -Mario Botta Architecture
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. -Mario Botta Architecture
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. -Mario Botta Architecture
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. -Mario Botta Architecture
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. -Mario Botta Architecture
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand. -Mario Botta Architecture
