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Raggi: Has the fact that you are a woman been a crucial influence in your work? Aulenti: Yes.

— Gae Aulenti

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When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.

What is more real and tangible within an artificial space than brick?

I am convinced that architecture is tied to the polis, it is an art of the city, of the foundation, and as such it is necessarily related and conditioned by the context in which it is born. Place, time, and culture create that architecture, instead of another.

The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.

Advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends [...] and to return to lasting values.

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