Italian Architect Quotes

Michelangelo

Giorgio Vasari

Leon Battista Alberti

Renzo Piano

Aldo Rossi

Ettore Sottsass

Bruno Zevi

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures, culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

Ettore Sottsass

Impressionism is at the root of all modern art, because it was the first movement that managed to free itself from preconceived ideas, and because it changed not only the way life was depicted but the way life was seen.

Francesco Salvi

One of the worst things that can happen to a man is for him to work and study hard in order to benefit others and make his own name and then be prevented by sickness, or perhaps death itself, from finally completing what he has begun

A satisfactory history of architecture has not yet been written, because we are still not accustomed to thinking in terms of space, and because historians of architecture have failed to apply a coherent method of studying buildings from a spatial point of view.

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Leon Battista Alberti

The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.

The vain comet which by its light has disturbed the earth and the heavens begins its harmless journey. With that light bestowed upon it by the creator it shrewdly propitiates the adverse celestial torches by its equal fire. May this comet which alters the heavens with its ready advantage teach me the nature of the stars.