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“ 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. ”

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

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Mario Botta Architecture Me People

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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Mario Botta Small Me Building

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

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Mario Botta Great Simple Past

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

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