Quotes by Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god – somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Doe

Draws

Littles

A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.

Architect

Museums

Should

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.

Empty

Parks

Space

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Architect

Dream

Wells

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Bad Ass

Badass

Fighting

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you’re doing. You have to be sure about what you’re doing.

Art

Design

People

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

Architecture

Art

Feds

Architecture is art. I don’t think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it’s polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.

Art

Mean

Technology

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 a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

Artist

Needs

Visionaries

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

Beautiful

Cities

Years

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Architecture

Art

Artist

Bad Ass

Badass

Beautiful

Block

Book

Childhood

Cities

Criticism

Design

Discipline

Doe

Draws

Dream

Empty

Feds

Feet

Fighting

Giving

Goal

Hands

Harmony

House

Inspiration

Islands

Italian

Knowing

Land

Light

Littles

London

Lunch

Mean

Men

Museums

Needs

Opposites

Painting

Parks

Past

People

Piano

Quality

Remember

Sailing

Should

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Quotes by Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god – somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.

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.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you’re doing. You have to be sure about what you’re doing.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

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 a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

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