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… — 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
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
