When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
