Piano:There was no doubt that I wanted to be somebody who made buildings. I spent a lot of time on site with my father. He was a small builder with maybe 12 workmen—always very elegant with the jacket, the hat–and he controlled everything. When you are age eight or so and watch, you understand that there’s magic in construction. You have raw materials one day and something standing up, straight and solid, the next. But when you’re 18, you want to run away from home, so I studied architecture in Florence and Milan to be different from my family. It’s a simple story. When I told my father I wanted to be an architect, he said, “But why? The builder gets to it all, not just the design.” Still, I remained in the art of building.