“ For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. ”
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
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.
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.