Renzo Piano – “The difference between a builder and an architect is that an arch…”
Renzo Piano best Dreams Quotes – “The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.”
Renzo Piano best Dreams Quotes – “The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.”
Renzo Piano best Design Quotes – “I don’t like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It’s not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.”
Renzo Piano best Design Quotes – “When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.”
Renzo Piano best Attitude Quotes – “In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don’t have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.”
Renzo Piano best Age Quotes – “Enjoying art is a personal matter. It’s made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was – and is – a builder in my family.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It’s the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it’s the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don’t read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.”
Renzo Piano best Architecture Quotes – “In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything – from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up – grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.”
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything – from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up – grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. – Renzo Piano