A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. — 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
