Ponte dell' academia Venezia

Venice is an architectural of joy.

I like the place as a whole where each building contributes to the other. An architect building in Venice must think in terms of sympathy, working on my project I was constantly thinking as if I was asking each building I love so much in Venice whether the would accept me in their company (Louis Kahn).

Venice means beauty and kitsch, grandeur and decadention, a madhouse and a Tivoli, tourist-industry and a turned to stone history.

Sun, places, flowers, gay-coloured mooring-masts, the smells of little canals, people, small sinister streets and inner-courts, dark interiors of churches with devotion lights, the loneliness of Torcello and the intense bustle of Merceria, the fabulous splendour of the San Marco and the melancholy of the lagoons, the blue of Titan and the purple of Tintoretto, hate and love, fairy-tale and reality, barcaroles, but for all water, everywhere the smile of the water.