"When you design a building, you start from……" — Renzo Piano
"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 to build it."
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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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