"The difference between a builder and an architect……" — Renzo Piano
"The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams."
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25 Quotes by Renzo Piano
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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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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
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I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want…
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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