My personal statement
I haven’t always dreamed of studying architecture. It took a slow, winding internal process for me to understand it. So I looked for a school that mirrored what I had experienced. I was searching for a University where pragmatism and artistic freedom merge together, where conventions are breached to find balance in something new, that reflects our times and sensibility. I wanted to study in a city where modernity and history intertwine, in a place of cultural syncretism, an eclectic and lively place, where to be independent and at the same time where to find my intimacy. I wish that what I studied could contaminate my everyday life and vice versa. This is why I’ve chosen MSA. The modern man suffers from a slight nausea. He’s shaken by a whirlwind of news, data he can’t control; they quickly rotate around him: when he thinks he’s close to a solution, an impercetible and heavy flow of information submerges him again. The blur...
