Piero Portaluppi

"All architecture is geometry, in dreaming, in thinking, in representation, in translation, in realization, in completion."

"Of all my past passions, of all the varied tendencies, of all the colorful fixations, of all the eclectic manias, I will speak of everything except the most comprehensive and complete art, the art I have always cultivated and adored, but which I have always vilified and mistreated: 'Mother Architecture'."

"It is the handles that open the doors of my environments to dreams."

""Piero Portaluppi represents a significant and exemplary part, in its elegance, of Milanese architecture between the two world wars." (Antonello Negri)"

""... the regenerative arrival of the Portaluppis, the Gio Ponti." (Carlo Emilio Gadda)"

""Thus my great-grandfather Piero Portaluppi made Milan less austere, but the death of his son destroyed him." (Piero Maranghi)"