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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. Mario Botta

Architecture State Took Circumstances Favourable Some Propose Advantage Academy Foundation Switzerland University

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear. Mario Botta

Design Everything Would Seem Clear Wanted Which Museum

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death. Mario Botta

Death Great Me Marriage Humanity Church Design Birth Mystery Powerful Most Most Powerful Because Shelters Privilege Confronted Themes

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. Max Bill

Art Natural Words Other Resources Rules Those Borrowing Abstraction Call Without Concrete Came Being In Other Words Transforming Natural Phenomena Inherent Works Phenomena External Basis

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it. Maya Lin

Funny You Live Something Through Aware

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. Maya Lin

You Lost Own Think Come Conclusions Dictate Should Viewers Away

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. Maya Lin

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. Maya Lin

Way Drawn Never Part Most Built Were Get Things

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. Maya Lin

You Before Nothing Came Might Next Ever Guaranteed

Every memorial in its time has a different goal. Maya Lin

Time Every Memorial Goal Different

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. Maya Lin

Art You Matter Conviction Side Everything Study Smarts Know How Making How Much Brain Question Anything Much Your Help Necessarily

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. Maya Lin

Crazy Class School Nerd Studied Like Loved

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. Maya Lin

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. Maya Lin

War Nature World Monument Futile Memorial Almost Studying Terrifying Passage Ends Should Nowhere Designed Started World War World War III

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on. Maya Lin

Resolved Project Projects Hurry Take Am Lot Very Each

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. Maya Lin

Me Mind Mine Solely Totally Part Idea Longer Terrified Public

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. Maya Lin

School Fine Fine Arts Casting Dean Arts Using Dad Playground University

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. Maya Lin

Art Science Architecture Analytically Approach Rather Both Pursue Merging Left Very Than Fields Them Then Separate Choose Things

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