"A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza……" — Renzo Piano
"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."
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25 Quotes by Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano has 25 quotes on this site.
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
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Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
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A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
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Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word –…
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As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a…
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is…
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Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly…
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Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a…
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Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're…
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly…
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Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a…
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In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from…
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More Commercial Quotes
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In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.
— Giorgio Armani
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going…
— J. G. Ballard
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies…
— James Buchan
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My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in…
— Steve Albini
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
— Edmund Burke
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In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films…
— Steve Buscemi
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from…
— A. S. Byatt
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other…
— Adam Carolla
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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to…
— John Bates Clark
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I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the…
— Kurt Cobain
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