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Architect Quotes by Renzo Piano
- Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
- As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be…
- Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
- You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
- As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
- The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being…
- The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
- 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…
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