"I came to architecture from building. Because my……" — Renzo Piano

"I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family."

— Renzo Piano

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25 Quotes by Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word –…
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a…
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is…
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly…
Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a…
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're…
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly…
Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a…
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from…

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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