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“ 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. ”

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

~ Mario Botta

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.

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Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

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

~ Mario Botta