A new architecture - honest, austere, clear, calm.
Time suspended in stillness.
Clearing of horizon.
Nearness of sky.
The void perceived as massiveness.
Task: to reveal unlimited nature in a limited fragment.
A place in which to feel serene, still, at peace, free from disorder and vulgarity.
A site configuration in which any form of conflict ceases, the eye calms, the cogito gives up doubting, the direction becomes clear.
To feel the presence of silence, of the non visible, of the non material - a great task.
It is not a matter of scale, proportions, light, efficiency, floor finishes and white walls, it is a matter of awakening people’s sensitivity.
Inwardness.
Purity of view.
Good architecture makes us silent.
Visual orientation.
It is the act of preservation of space that counts.
Thickness of space.
Abstraction of functions.
Opening up a new seeing, that is, relaxing the willing eye for a seeing free from possessiveness.
Harmony between elements, between figures no opposites, no clutter, no tension, no fragments.
Space is not distance it is immensity.
Subtle lifting of gravity and weight.
The sun’s piercing engraved onto plain surfaces.
The intensity of the sun wrapped in shadow - coolness.
The endurance of materials freezes the fashions of time.
Beauty is like love - it is timeless.
The materialistic culture of perverted forms fears simplicity.
A place to which we can come and for a while be free from thinking about what we are going to do.
No time, no signature.
The minimalness of the I.
Architecture as a bridge between earth and sky, divinities and mortals.
Elegant simplicity is not to say simplistic – innovative thought is a must.
It is not a matter of being sensitive to architecture, but simply of being sensitive.
Stretching space to the limit and beyond.
The architect’s signature is not present, it is invisible. There are no gestures, trends or styles.
To feel the bond between earth and geometry.
Simple, clear geometry: non-referential, not the expression of the ego it is understood by all.
Every fissure is a glimpse of light that life itself grants us.
To think of weight and lightness as lovers.
Seamlessness.
Subtle lifting of gravity and weight.
Minimal configuration reveals maximum intensity.
Fluid energy resting on the stone.
Simple, clear geometry: non-referential, not the expression of the ego – it is understood by all.
Task: to create a building that absorbs you completely, in the same way that the solidity of a mountain, the vastness of the sea, or the immensity of the sky captures and holds your vision.
Task: to express the magic of light instead of light as a quantum.
Task: to reveal unlimited nature in a limited fragment.
The architect’s signature is not present, it is invisible. There are no gestures, trends or styles...
The construction of a new scene in which neither nature nor architecture prevails, but exist in harmony.
The minimum number of object, of materials, of figures, of lines, of colours, of signs.
The non-materiality of the material.
The sun’s piercing engraved onto plain surfaces.
Stretching space to the limit and beyond.
Space is not distance it is immensity.
It was the belief in those truths that we now consider errors that motivated the great works of art.
Raphael’s paintings, Michelangelo’s fresco and Gothic cathedrals... whatever has grown out of religion and near it, cannot grow again once religion has been destroyed.
The artist puts into one object everything else that he honours and esteems: in this way he perfects an object (idealises it).
I have learned form, and been inspired by, the great Italian Masters: with superb style they teach us about the spiritual quality of materials, and the emotion of solidity that a form or configuration must embody and express in order to transcend the ordinary and the temporary.
I’ve learned to go beyond material boundaries in order to render the potential infinity of things. Creating forms that make us feel the lack of durability and inevitable dissolution of the matter that we ourselves are made of.
Configurations that bring the site closer to us, that let the earth be earth,that make the sky nearer, the sun’s splendour more intense, the night closer to night, the horizon open, the space visible, the water almost touching us.
How? Pause for a while from your calculated, mathematical thought and let your mindbe guided by your eye and by your heart.
Through stable, quiet and serene architecture (rather than through loud and ostentatious forms), the soul gives up fighting against its earthly fate and finds peace. Through the pursuit of absolute perfection, architecture turns matter into abstract form, creating visions that do not seem to belong to the material world. Thus the divine is brought closer to the soul.
A new architecture - honest, austere, clear, calm.
Time suspended in stillness.
Clearing of horizon.
Nearness of sky.
The void perceived as massiveness.
Task: to reveal unlimited nature in a limited fragment.
A place in which to feel serene, still, at peace, free from disorder and vulgarity.
A site configuration in which any form of conflict ceases, the eye calms, the cogito gives up doubting, the direction becomes clear.
To feel the presence of silence, of the non visible, of the non material - a great task.
It is not a matter of scale, proportions, light, efficiency, floor finishes and white walls, it is a matter of awakening people’s sensitivity.
Inwardness.
Purity of view.
Good architecture makes us silent.
Visual orientation.
It is the act of preservation of space that counts.
Thickness of space.
Abstraction of functions.
Opening up a new seeing, that is, relaxing the willing eye for a seeing free from possessiveness.
Harmony between elements, between figures no opposites, no clutter, no tension, no fragments.
Space is not distance it is immensity.
Subtle lifting of gravity and weight.
The sun’s piercing engraved onto plain surfaces.
The intensity of the sun wrapped in shadow - coolness.
The endurance of materials freezes the fashions of time.
Beauty is like love - it is timeless.
The materialistic culture of perverted forms fears simplicity.
A place to which we can come and for a while be free from thinking about what we are going to do.
No time, no signature.
The minimalness of the I.
Architecture as a bridge between earth and sky, divinities and mortals.
Elegant simplicity is not to say simplistic – innovative thought is a must.
It is not a matter of being sensitive to architecture, but simply of being sensitive.
Stretching space to the limit and beyond.
The architect’s signature is not present, it is invisible. There are no gestures, trends or styles.
To feel the bond between earth and geometry.
Simple, clear geometry: non-referential, not the expression of the ego it is understood by all.
Every fissure is a glimpse of light that life itself grants us.
To think of weight and lightness as lovers.
Seamlessness.
Subtle lifting of gravity and weight.
Minimal configuration reveals maximum intensity.
Fluid energy resting on the stone.
Simple, clear geometry: non-referential, not the expression of the ego – it is understood by all.
Task: to create a building that absorbs you completely, in the same way that the solidity of a mountain, the vastness of the sea, or the immensity of the sky captures and holds your vision.
Task: to express the magic of light instead of light as a quantum.
Task: to reveal unlimited nature in a limited fragment.
The architect’s signature is not present, it is invisible. There are no gestures, trends or styles...
The construction of a new scene in which neither nature nor architecture prevails, but exist in harmony.
The minimum number of object, of materials, of figures, of lines, of colours, of signs.
The non-materiality of the material.
The sun’s piercing engraved onto plain surfaces.
Stretching space to the limit and beyond.
Space is not distance it is immensity.
It was the belief in those truths that we now consider errors that motivated the great works of art.
Raphael’s paintings, Michelangelo’s fresco and Gothic cathedrals... whatever has grown out of religion and near it, cannot grow again once religion has been destroyed.
The artist puts into one object everything else that he honours and esteems: in this way he perfects an object (idealises it).
I have learned form, and been inspired by, the great Italian Masters: with superb style they teach us about the spiritual quality of materials, and the emotion of solidity that a form or configuration must embody and express in order to transcend the ordinary and the temporary.
I’ve learned to go beyond material boundaries in order to render the potential infinity of things. Creating forms that make us feel the lack of durability and inevitable dissolution of the matter that we ourselves are made of.
Configurations that bring the site closer to us, that let the earth be earth,that make the sky nearer, the sun’s splendour more intense, the night closer to night, the horizon open, the space visible, the water almost touching us.
How? Pause for a while from your calculated, mathematical thought and let your mindbe guided by your eye and by your heart.
Through stable, quiet and serene architecture (rather than through loud and ostentatious forms), the soul gives up fighting against its earthly fate and finds peace. Through the pursuit of absolute perfection, architecture turns matter into abstract form, creating visions that do not seem to belong to the material world. Thus the divine is brought closer to the soul.
A new architecture - honest, austere, clear, calm.
Time suspended in stillness.
Clearing of horizon.
Nearness of sky.
The void perceived as massiveness.
Task: to reveal unlimited nature in a limited fragment.
A place in which to feel serene, still, at peace, free from disorder and vulgarity.
A site configuration in which any form of conflict ceases, the eye calms, the cogito gives up doubting, the direction becomes clear.
To feel the presence of silence, of the non visible, of the non material - a great task.
It is not a matter of scale, proportions, light, efficiency, floor finishes and white walls, it is a matter of awakening people’s sensitivity.
Inwardness.
Purity of view.
Good architecture makes us silent.
Visual orientation.
It is the act of preservation of space that counts.
Thickness of space.
Abstraction of functions.
Opening up a new seeing, that is, relaxing the willing eye for a seeing free from possessiveness.
Harmony between elements, between figures no opposites, no clutter, no tension, no fragments.
Space is not distance it is immensity.
Subtle lifting of gravity and weight.
The sun’s piercing engraved onto plain surfaces.
The intensity of the sun wrapped in shadow - coolness.
The endurance of materials freezes the fashions of time.
Beauty is like love - it is timeless.
The materialistic culture of perverted forms fears simplicity.
A place to which we can come and for a while be free from thinking about what we are going to do.
No time, no signature.
The minimalness of the I.
Architecture as a bridge between earth and sky, divinities and mortals.
Elegant simplicity is not to say simplistic – innovative thought is a must.
It is not a matter of being sensitive to architecture, but simply of being sensitive.
Stretching space to the limit and beyond.
The architect’s signature is not present, it is invisible. There are no gestures, trends or styles.
To feel the bond between earth and geometry.
Simple, clear geometry: non-referential, not the expression of the ego it is understood by all.
Every fissure is a glimpse of light that life itself grants us.
To think of weight and lightness as lovers.
Seamlessness.
Subtle lifting of gravity and weight.
Minimal configuration reveals maximum intensity.
Fluid energy resting on the stone.
Simple, clear geometry: non-referential, not the expression of the ego – it is understood by all.
Task: to create a building that absorbs you completely, in the same way that the solidity of a mountain, the vastness of the sea, or the immensity of the sky captures and holds your vision.
Task: to express the magic of light instead of light as a quantum.
Task: to reveal unlimited nature in a limited fragment.
The architect’s signature is not present, it is invisible. There are no gestures, trends or styles...
The construction of a new scene in which neither nature nor architecture prevails, but exist in harmony.
The minimum number of object, of materials, of figures, of lines, of colours, of signs.
The non-materiality of the material.
The sun’s piercing engraved onto plain surfaces.
Stretching space to the limit and beyond.
Space is not distance it is immensity.
It was the belief in those truths that we now consider errors that motivated the great works of art.
Raphael’s paintings, Michelangelo’s fresco and Gothic cathedrals... whatever has grown out of religion and near it, cannot grow again once religion has been destroyed.
The artist puts into one object everything else that he honours and esteems: in this way he perfects an object (idealises it).
I have learned form, and been inspired by, the great Italian Masters: with superb style they teach us about the spiritual quality of materials, and the emotion of solidity that a form or configuration must embody and express in order to transcend the ordinary and the temporary.
I’ve learned to go beyond material boundaries in order to render the potential infinity of things. Creating forms that make us feel the lack of durability and inevitable dissolution of the matter that we ourselves are made of.
Configurations that bring the site closer to us, that let the earth be earth,that make the sky nearer, the sun’s splendour more intense, the night closer to night, the horizon open, the space visible, the water almost touching us.
How? Pause for a while from your calculated, mathematical thought and let your mindbe guided by your eye and by your heart.
Through stable, quiet and serene architecture (rather than through loud and ostentatious forms), the soul gives up fighting against its earthly fate and finds peace. Through the pursuit of absolute perfection, architecture turns matter into abstract form, creating visions that do not seem to belong to the material world. Thus the divine is brought closer to the soul.
