Mario Botta Quotes

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

I'm a builder, first and foremost.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

I like building.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.