Italian Architecture Quotes

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

My wife is Italian, and I lived there for six years.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

I'm not going for the sixteenth chapel.

Italy - I love the late-night culture, hanging around the square at midnight with everyone, catching up and having a drink.

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

I'm Italian.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.

I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture: the music, art, literature, film, food, and history. It's easy to fall in love with. As a country, Italy does a good job of holding onto its rich traditions and culture. There's a real lack of embracing history in America.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.