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The work of an architect
has always been slow,

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unlike the work of a singer,
a writer, or an artist,

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who at 20 can be at the top
of their expressive abilities.

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Architecture has always been.
and I reckon it will keep on being,

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the mastery of complexity
and you need experience.

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Being an architect also means
being the entrepreneur of yourself,

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entrepreneur of your own ideas,
most of all.

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This has not much to do
with the culture of the project,

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it has to do with
the culture of ideas,

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which is very topical nowadays.
We need to teach young people…

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to understand when they have had
a good idea.

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How to stop it. block it,
and develop it.

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Then they have to check if such
a good idea does not exist yet.

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I think architects should rarely
deal with the theme of the house,

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people who are not architects
can also deal with it,

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because you have to create
the joy of its inhabitants.

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And many times architecture
has created hells.

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For example, I have only made
a house for a friend.

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I created what he had been
talking about for 30 years,

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but I've never made
a collective house.

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It is part of those "No"
you have to say,

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you need to have a sensitivity
that it's not experimental.

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The story of my life
is very simple,

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when I was young
I had two traumas,

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first came the suburbs.
not as an aesthetic fact,

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but I saw how
some of my classmates lived.

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For me it is an indelible memory.

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Second were concentration camps,
my uncle took me to visit them.

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These two things made me collapse,

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when I started dealing
with architecture,

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but it was a spontaneous reaction.

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I don't have the problem of leaving
ruins or monuments behind,

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what I do is
an expression of life.

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These years are more characterised
by things I have not done,

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rather than what I have done.

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Looking back at my experience
I have not done certain things.

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On the other hand
it is an odd path.

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I went from the Louvre museum
to a temple in India.

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These were the circumstances
of my life.

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they took me around,
with unexpected themes.

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There have been
very peculiar stories,

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while I was making the temple
in India.

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I was also making the most
incredible restaurant in Dubai,

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which still exists today. with
half a million diamonds hanging.

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I have always experienced this
as a harmony,

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but I wanted to make a
different kind of temple,

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and also that diamond "cave”,
They are not the same thing.

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In fact, my story is made of
an apparent eclecticism,

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which is actually the diversity
of the themes I had to answer to.

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The story of this apparent
eclecticism is very simple,

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ever since I was young I have been
a great fan of Stanley Kubrick.

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When you see the work
of Stanley Kubrick,

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each film deals with a genre.
science fiction. political fiction,

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thriller. historical drama,
war film...

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I believe the genre is much more
important than the apparent style.

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Today the genre is essential,
as it contains,

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in the most complex way,
the theme of the narration.

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I have always considered my job...

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as a narrative transposition
of very complex themes.

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I think the secret of participating
in the genre theory.

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like Kubrick, is that once
you have dealt with a genre,

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you do not have to go back to that,

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because that is when
style problems arise.

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My architecture is not very
interesting with no one inside,

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it has to be used.

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I am very affectionate to
the "Museo del Novecento”,

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one thing I do not like,
to be honest.

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is that it is not very much used,

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as regards
the rotation of collections.

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That museum should be alive,

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it should make continuous
small changes and adjustments,

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dialogues.

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At the same time it has
a very strong core.

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Fontana and the Futurism,

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which are milestones.

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What's surprising is that
Milan often uses that image,

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the dark room with the neon.

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I am very happy about that,
it is a sedimentation image.

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Someone put different things
together,

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all together they created an image
that has become iconic

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for a community. in this moment.

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Archistars have a lot of jobs,

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they have very organised
working structures,

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which correspond
to engineering studies,

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having a lot of jobs
they develop new technologies,

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and therefore they are very close
to architecture financing groups.

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This leads to being called
by politicians,

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for big projects.

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Today, the method to make
an interesting architecture

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is a very quick method,

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it allows you to control
and cross different complexities,

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different professions,

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accepting the contribution
of unexpected disciplines.

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If all architects observed the law.

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Italian and European laws,
any architecture would be bio.

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The problem is that
architects do not observe the law,

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and on the other hand
clients do not want to invest...

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respecting the law.

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And everything becomes "special”,
but it should be common practice.

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Many architects
still provide external ramps

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for disabled people
to enter lifts.

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The idea should be that
anybody should enter easily.